[Mammotomography, a new technic of breast examination]

The authors present the first results of a new technique of breast examination: tomo-mammography. This new method allows a complete study of the whole gland without any compression and any modification of histological and anatomical structures, and an analysis of the center of breast lesions in which are rassembled the most reliable radiological signs. These first results enable to hope a large increase of possibilities of diagnosis of breast lesions in the most difficult anatomical and clinical cases.