Gary Tse • Puay Hoon Tan
Fernando Schmitt
Authors
2013
Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the breast, although introduced in the 1930, became popular in the 1970s. As with many other techniques in medicine, it started slowly but gained greater acceptance when European investigators reported large series of breast FNAs proving the technique to be useful and accurate. Since then, the technique has gained acceptance throughout the world, although more recently a decline in the utilization of FNAC for some screen-detected lesions and greater reliance on core needle biopsy have taken place.