Folia Medica (Sep 2018)

Clinical Significance of Fine Needle Aspiration in Managing Patients with Breast Lesions

  • Dinas Konstantinos,
  • Pratilas Georgios C.,
  • Nasioutziki Maria,
  • Vavoulidis Eleftherios,
  • Makris Vasileios,
  • Loufopoulos Panagiotis D.,
  • Kalder Matthias

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/folmed-2018-0002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 60, no. 3
pp. 364 – 372

Abstract

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Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been and still is challenged about its role in the management of breast lesions. Guidelines today mandate that breast lesions should be managed with a triple assessment system consisting of clinical, radiological, and pathological evaluation.

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