Detection and localization of occult lesions using breast magnetic resonance imaging: initial experience in a community hospital.

Rationale And Objectives: To evaluate the outcome of diagnostic breast MR imaging followed by MR guided needle localization for mammographically and sonographically occult breast lesions in a community-based hospital.

Materials And Methods: Records of the initial 50 consecutive patients who underwent MR guided needle localizations at our institution from November 2001 to January 2003 were reviewed. Sixty-two lesions were localized by MR and were mammographically and sonographically occult.