[Impalpable breast abnormalities. Contribution of cytologic puncture under stereotaxic guidance. Apropos of 159 cases]. / Anomalies mammaires impalpables. Apport de la ponction cytologique par repérage stéréotaxique. A propos de 159 cas.

The authors report the results of a cooperative study of X ray guided fine needle aspiration for the cytologic diagnosis of non palpable breast lesions. They discuss the limits of this method. In 60% of 159 cases cytologic examination was diagnosis. In their series, no false positive was reported but in 64 cases no sufficient material was obtained.