Nonpalpable breast lesions discovered by mammography.
Publication/Presentation Date
9-1-1980
Abstract
Specimen mammography has been used at our medical center since January 1976, for the purpose of localizing and confirming the removal of mammographically identified, nonpalpable breast lesions. Forty patients were studied between Jan 1, 1976 and MFay 31, 1979, and 11 of these were found to have carcinoma. Nine of this group had surgical procedures that included axillary lymph node excision and there were no patients with positive axillary nodes. Frozen-section diagnosis was used in 22 patients and found to correlate well with permanent section diagnosis, providing the frozen section was obtained from the most suspicious area of the specimen. Needle localization was used in 15 patients and found to be of definite value in assuring excision of the mammographic abnormality. Three patients had a persistent mammographic lesion after the procedure was done and each of these was successfully managed by repeated biopsy using specimen roentgenography with needle localization.
Volume
115
Issue
9
First Page
1067
Last Page
1069
ISSN
0004-0010
Published In/Presented At
Solmer, R., Goodstein, J., & Agliozzo, C. (1980). Nonpalpable breast lesions discovered by mammography. Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 115(9), 1067–1069. https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1980.01380090043010
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
7416952
Department(s)
Fellows and Residents
Document Type
Article