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The attitude concerning breast biopsy in patients with malignant or suspected malignant mammary lesions has varied since biopsy was first carried out in the middle of the nineteenth century (McGraw and Hartman 1933). Initially, the main disagreement was about the overall necessity for breast biopsy. Later, the issues were when and how to do the biopsy. Today, most surgeons probably agree that ablative mammary procedures should not be undertaken unless malignancy has been verified by microscopic examinations of the suspected lesions. This almost universal agreement concerning the necessity for microscopic examination may in part be due to the recognition of the inaccuracy of the clinical examination in early malignancies of the breast. With the introduction of subclinical cancer, the microscopic examination has become indispensable.
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Watt-Boolsen, S., Blichert-Toft, M., Andersen, J.A., Andersen, K.W. (1987). Changing Aspects of Biopsy of the Breast: Is Breast Biopsy a Prognostic Hazard?. In: Brünner, S., Langfeldt, B. (eds) Breast Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82964-2_16
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