Clip migration after 11-gauge vacuum-assisted stereotactic biopsy: case report

Radiology. 2002 Mar;222(3):794-6. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2223011263.

Abstract

A 68-year-old woman underwent stereotactic biopsy of a small cluster of calcifications. The post-biopsy mammograms showed the biopsy-marking clip to be located correctly at the biopsy site. Follow-up mammograms 1 year later showed that the clip migrated to another quadrant of the breast. Findings in this case demonstrate that at long-term follow-up a biopsy-marking clip may not be accurately marking the biopsy site.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biopsy*
  • Breast / pathology*
  • Female
  • Foreign-Body Migration / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Mammography*
  • Stereotaxic Techniques*
  • Surgical Instruments*
  • Vacuum