title: Needle-biopsy cytology in the preoperative diagnostics of breast diseases.
abstract: The author has performed 1000 breast needle-biopsies during a period of 20 years. Based on his own experiences and on the data of the literature the method is evaluated as a useful, informative and complementary tool in the preoperative diagnosis of breast diseases. The method is reliable, quick, painless and performable on out-patients, it causes no dissipation of the tumour, therefore, it is recommended as a routine diagnostic method.
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia