MRI guided breast biopsy – pro
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has established guidelines to help uniformly assess the criteria for performing stereotactically guided breast biopsy for each modality including MRI. The ACR recommends that lesion visualization and access, availability of the imaging modality, efficiency, safety, and the practitioner’s experience are all used to determine the best guidance technique.
The MRI-guided biopsy is more cost-effective compared to a surgical biopsy and costs less.It si less expensive nad has fewer complications. Less scarring has a cosmetic benefit but also reduces the chance that the scar could obscure underlying tissue on mammography. Recovery time is minimal. The diagnosis is often made faster because of better access to biopsy suites than operating rooms. On the other hand, MRI is not the modality of choice for biopsying lesions that can be easily identified by mammography or sonography.
Weiss CR, Nour SG, Lewin JS. MR-guided biopsy: a review of current techniques and applications. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2008;27:311-325.
Weiss CR, Nour SG, Lewin JS. MR-guided biopsy: a review of current techniques and applications. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2008;27:311-325.
Amended 2014 – http://www.acr.org/~/media/ACR/Documents/PGTS/guidelines/MRI_Breast.pdf
American College of Radiology. ACR Practice Guideline for the Performance of Stereotactically Guided Breast Interventional Procedures. 2009.
Han BK, Schnall MD, Orel SG, Rosen M. Outcome of MRI-guided breast biopsy. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2008;191:1798-1804.
Elissa R. Priceemail, Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Guided Biopsy of the Breast: Fundamentals and Finer Points. MRI CLinics August 2013Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 571–581