Abstract

Introduction: Directional vacuum-assisted stereotactic breast biopsy (DVAB), represents an ex-cellent method for obtaining pathological diagnosis, being in many cases an alternative to surgery. Objec-tives: To present our 2-year experience in DVAB at the University of Chile's Clinical Hospital. Materials and methods: a descriptive retrospective study of DVAB was conducted in our Hospital from March 2005 to November 2007. Morphology of lesions, BI-RADS classification, pathology reports, complications as well as epidemiol