[Breast microcalcifications without palpable tumor detected using mammography. Anatomo-pathologic study technique]

Screening mammograms to detect early non palpable breast cancers will hopefully diminish the breast cancer mortality rate. However, proper pathologic examination of mammographically directed breast biopsies is mandatory. Sampling of a specimen containing microcalcifications should be directed by examination of the specimen radiogram. Frozen section of non palpable foci of microcalcifications is never performed. Thorough localization and sampling of the microcalcified lesions permit the detection of very small cancers usually of the intraductal type.