[Does a sector resection of the breast cure nodal mastopathy?]

Results of the clinico-morphological investigation of 265 patients with localized mastopathy who were submitted to sectorial resection showed that in the margins of the operative wound there were morphological signs of mastopathy in 252 (95.1%) patients. The results obtained confirm the opinion that structural alterations of the tissues known to be the essential feature of fibroadenomatosis can not be local, they are of diffuse character. So, the sectorial resection performed for localized mastopathy can not be radical and is of no therapeutic significance. The indication to surgical intervention must be determined not so much by the necessary treatment as by the real risk of hypo-diagnosis of breast cancer. So, there is no need to fulfil the sectorial resection for localized mastopathy. It is enough to make operation of less volume (excision biopsy).