Case report: Psychiatric disorder associated with vacuum-assisted breast biopsy clip placement | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Psychiatric disorder associated with vacuum-assisted breast biopsy clip placement a case report George C Zografos 1 Flora Zagouri1 Theodoros N Sergentanis1 Marios Panou1 Dimitrios Dardamanis1 Georgia Giannakopoulou1 George M Filippakis1 George Papadimitriou2 and Sophia Stamouli2 Address 1Breast Unit 1st Department of Propaedeutic Surgery Hippokratio Hospital School of Medicine University of Athens Vas Sofias Avenue Athens 116 27 Greece and 2Department of Psychiatry Eginition Hospital University of Athens Greece Email George C Zografos - gzografo@ Flora Zagouri - florazagouri@ Theodoros N Sergentanis - tsergentanis@ Marios Panou - marios_panou@ Dimitrios Dardamanis - dardaman@ Georgia Giannakopoulou - ggiannakopoulou@ George M Filippakis - gfilipp@ George Papadimitriou - breastunit_ipp@ Sophia Stamouli - sstamouli@ Corresponding author Published 17 October 2008 Received 25 October 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 332 doi 1752-1947-2-332 Accepted 17 October 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 332 2008 Zografos et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy is a minimally invasive technique that has been used increasingly in the treatment of mammographically detected non-palpable breast lesions. Clip placement at the biopsy site is standard practice after vacuum-assisted breast biopsy. Case presentation We present the case of a 62-year-old woman with suspicious microcalcifications in her left breast. The patient was informed about vacuum-assisted breast .
