title: Breast lesions diagnosed by fine needle aspiration.
abstract: Fine needle aspiration (FNA) of the breast offers patient and clinican a rapid, non-morbid, inexpensive, and highly accurate means of diagnosing both benign and malignant breast lesions. Breast FNA can replace frozen section diagnosis, and in fact has the advantage of providing a known diagnosis before the time that operations are performed. This situation enables the patient and surgeon to discuss and plan therapeutic alternatives in a rational atmosphere. As with any other technique, experience of the aspirator and diagnostician minimizes false positive and false negative rates.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000175:diagnosis; D000232:Adenofibroma / Q000175:diagnosis; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D005348:Fibrocystic Breast Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008413:Mastitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D003557:Phyllodes Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy