title: [Breast saving therapy: diagnostic problems in after care].
abstract: From 1.1.1977 through 31.12.1985 two hundred seventy-five patients with stages pTis, pT1-2, pN0-1, cM0 breast cancer were treated by breast-conserving therapy. Six patients (2%) were lost to follow-up. Fifty-four patients developed significant subcutaneous or parenchymal induration in the treated breast. The induration was considered clinically suspicious for recurrence in 30/54 and non-suspicious in 24/54. Of the 30 suspicious indurations mammography was diagnostic or suggestive of recurrence in 12 (40%), and the diagnosis of recurrence could be confirmed microscopically in 16 (53%). Mammography showed no pathologic findings in 14/30 (42%) patients with suspicious indurations, and in 12/30 (40%) the impression of benignity was also confirmed microscopically. In patients whose mammograms were diagnostic or suggestive of tumor, malignancy was demonstrated by pathologic examination in all cases. In 21/24 (87.5%) clinically benign indurations no tumor could be found on microscopic examination. Twenty of these patients had a normal mammogram, and in only 1 of these was a recurrence discovered incidentally during a cosmetic operation. Four of the 24 patients with clinically benign indurations had pathologic mammograms, and in 2 of these the diagnosis of recurrence was established histologically. - The rate of agreement between suspicious clinical and mammographic or microscopic findings was about 50%, whereas the correlation for clinically benign indurations was greater than 80%.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Walther
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hünig
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Almendral
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Harder
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Laffer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Torhorst
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental / Q000379:methods*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Brusterhaltende Therapie: diagnostische Probleme in der Nachsorge.