title: [Surgical treatment of breast lesions: preliminary results of the screening program of the Ariana area].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report clinical, radiological and histological characteristics of the infraclinical breast lesions patients recruited via the large scale mammography breast cancer screening of l'Ariana state in Tunisia.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective study over a period of 2 years. The recruitment of patients made on the occasion of the program of breast cancer screening.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During this period, 22 patients in our unity had had a surgical excision after wire localization. Ten patients were recruited by means of systematic breast cancer screening. In these cases, the mammographic findings were classified B.I.R.A.D.S 4 in 7 cases and BIRADS type 5 in 3 cases. Definitive histology concluded to benign disease in 4 cases and malignancy 6 cases. This collaboration enables the diagnosis an invasive ductal carcinoma in three cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The surgical excision after wire localization for non palpable breast lesions allows diagnosis of high-risk benign lesions and low-stage breast cancer. It is a reliable technique which indications have to be based on clinical and radiological strict criteria. This procedure is at present, and in developed countries, widely outstripped with the stereotactic core needle biopsy.
authors.affiliation: Service A du centre de maternité et de néonatologie de Tunis.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chelli
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dimassi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salem
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Driss
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zaanouni
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zouaoui
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sfar
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ben Aissa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chelli
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Chennoufi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Boussen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014416:Tunisia