SONOGRAPHY OF A SOLIDIFIED BENIGN BREAST CYST

Sonographically guided aspiration of breast masses is a procedure that is being used increasingly to obviate surgery through the aspiration of nonsimple cysts.(1-3) This is an attractive option as a needle biop sy is less invasive and less costly. We describe a case in which an as piration resulted in the incorrect diagnosis of a solid mass, which le d to the surgical biopsy of a benign cyst. In the present era of manag ed care, the false-positive diagnosis of a solid mass was a costly mis take. Awareness of this possibility may prevent similar misdiagnoses.