Diagnosis of breast cancer in the gynecology department
Gorisek, B.; Vlaisavljević, V.
Jugoslavenska Ginekologija i Perinatologija 26(3-4): 65-68
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0352-5562 PMID: 3561026 Document Number: 284851
Breast examinations were performed in 4199 women by a simultaneous carrying out of clinical investigation, thermography and mammography, and, if needed, also by ultrasonic examination and aspiration cytology. A total of 169 women were referred to treatment and biopsy. Among them, 78 had breast cancer. In 6 patients ca in situ intraductale was discovered, while the disease was limited to the breast with negative lymph nodes in the axilla in 48 (61.5%) patients. Mammography proved more successful than clinical investigation. Its sensitivity amounted to 92% and that of clinical investigation only to 69%. The cost of a complete diagnostic process (on the first of April, 1986) was 5.717 dinars, which means that the cost of a diagnosed carcinoma was 307.765 dinars.