Piccolo S., D'Aiuto G., Lastoria S., Rota A.M., Apicella A., Muto P., Alaia C., Monfardini S . National Cancer Institute, Napoli, Italy.
Suspicious mammography requires an excess of direct biopsies for final diagnosis.
The accuracy of FNAB and the emphasis on costs containment played a key role in a wide use of such a cheap modality. Nevertheless, the lack of well defined cytological criteria to differentiate benign, premalignant and malignant breast lesions and the overlapping features among them are the main drawbacks. FN Benign Dis. Thus, it might significantly reduce the number of unnecessary open biopsies.