title: Paget's disease of the breast. Simple method of cytological diagnosis.
abstract: A simple abrasive technique for obtaining cytological material for evaluation of lesions of the mammary nipple yields samples which permit a diagnosis of Paget's disease without surgical biopsy. The lesion is abraded with the rough surface of a glass microscope slide having one frosted face; the sample is fixed with polyethylene glycol, and stained with the Papanicolaou technique. The slide is rendered transparent by the cover-slip mounting material and is evaluated according to usual cytological standards.
authors.affiliation: Eden Hospital Laboratories, Castro Valley, Calif., USA.
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Dutra
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003581:Cytodiagnosis / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010144:Paget's Disease, Mammary / Q000473:pathology*