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Review
. 2025 Feb:81:106714.
doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2024.09.020. Epub 2024 Oct 5.

Classifying, recognizing, and troubleshooting errors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided breast biopsies

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Classifying, recognizing, and troubleshooting errors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided breast biopsies

B Tran et al. Clin Radiol. 2025 Feb.

Abstract

MRI-guided biopsies can generate challenging scenarios. Errors can occur for many reasons, both preprocedural and intraprocedural. Radiology errors have been studied for many years, originally classified by Renfrew in 1992 and revised in 2014 by Kim and Mansfield. While classification systems have focused on diagnostic radiology; many can also apply to procedural errors. This review aims to use the Kim-Mansfield modification of the Renfrew error classification system to provide a discussion and review of common MRI-guided biopsy errors to help radiologists manage them efficiently and appropriately.

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Conflict of interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Stefanie Woodard reports a relationship with Bracco Diagnostics Inc that includes: funding grants. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work.

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