Approach to Fine-needle Aspiration Cytology-negative Cases of Breast Cancer

To clarify the clinical usefulness of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology of breast tumours and the management of FNA cytology-negative cases suspected of or equivocal for malignancy.FNA cytology was performed in 94 patients between 1995 and 2002. We calculated the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of FNA cytology for the diagnosis of malignancy. We also compared clinical and radiological findings between false-negative and true-negative...