## BACKGROUND. The value of ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology Jerzy Klijanienko, M
Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of nonpalpable breast lesions
β Scribed by Boerner, Scott ;Fornage, Bruno D. ;Singletary, Eva ;Sneige, Nour
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Volume
- 87
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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β¦ Synopsis
BACKGROUND.
A probabilistic approach to the classification of fine-needle aspirates (FNAs) of the breast recently was recommended and received endorsement from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In this system, FNAs are classified as benign, indeterminate/atypical, suspicious/probably malignant, and malignant, but to the authors' knowledge the use of these diagnostic categories has not been evaluated on a large scale. Furthermore, this classification scheme has not been applied to FNAs of nonpalpable lesions of the breast obtained under imaging guidance. Thus, the current study focused on whether the diagnostic categories could be applied usefully to ultrasound-guided FNAs (US-FNAs) of nonpalpable breast lesions.
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