[The significance of puncture biopsy and cytological diagnosis in the early detection and treatment of carcinoma of the breast]. / Vrednost punkcione biopsije i citoloska dijagnoza u ranom otkrivanju i lecenje karcinoma dojke.

In the period 1980-1987 at the Titov Veles Medical Center 430 women were investigated using native mammographia and punction biopsy with cytological diagnosis. All these investigations were undertaken for the purpose of early discovery of breast cancer. Malignant tumour was cytologically found in 51 women. Only in 6 cases where the cytological findings were negative breast cancer was found through histological analysis. All patients with confirmed breast cancer were operated on applying complete mastectomy. In 19 of these patients metastatic changes in axillary lymph glands were also found.