Correlation of suspicious mammograms and x‐rays of breast biopsies during surgery. Results in 60 cases

Improved techniques for clinical mammography are resulting in the more frequent identification of suspicious impalpable lesions in the breast. Radiographic study of breast biopsies obtained to excise these lesions is essential to determine that the suspicious area has been removed and to localize it for detailed study. Twenty per cent of 60 consecutive biopsies in which specimen x‐rays and clinical mammograms were correlated during surgery proved to contain cancer in the lesion which had been identified radiologically.