[Intracystic papillary carcinoma of the breast. Personal experience]

The Authors, on the base of three cases of intracystic papillary carcinoma of the breast, discuss about the diagnostic means and the modalities of treatment of such rare cancer. They stress the value of cytology by fine needle aspiration, which gives more detailed informations than mammography or ultrasonography. As far as the treatment concerns, the Authors, according to the data of the literature, suggest for this tumor, still at an "in situ" stage, a conservative surgical treatment such as a quadrantectomy or tumorectomy plus lymphadenectomy followed both by radiotherapy. Finally, they remark that the intracystic papillary carcinoma of the breast, mainly arising in old women (7th, 8th decade), was found within their series (two out of three) in young women in the 5th decade of life.