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Correlation between mammography and the pathology of nonpalpable breast lesions
Author(s) -
Albert Michael P.,
Sachsse Eckart,
Coe Nicholas P. W.,
Pace David W.,
Reed William P.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930440110
Subject(s) - medicine , mammography , correlation , radiology , fibrocystic breast disease , pathology , mammary gland , breast cancer , cancer , geometry , mathematics
One hundred consecutive needle localization biopsies were performed for nonpalpable breast lesions discovered on low‐dose mammography of asymptomatic women between June, 1984, and August, 1986. Malignant disease was found on 21 biopsies. Four were carcinoma in situ, and 17 were infiltrating carcinomas. Only three of the infiltrating carcinomas had metastasized to regional nodes, as confirmed by subsequent axillary dissection. Two of these metastatic tumors involved two nodes and the third only one. The findings on the remaining 79 biopsies were benign. Forty‐eight mammograms were read as “benign”; all (100%) were benign pathologically. Thirty‐one mammograms were considered “malignant”; 19 (61%) were malignant pathologically. Only two of the 21 mammograms given “suspicious” interpretations were malignant. Microcalcifications correlated with malignancy only 30% of the time (12/42).