Abstract:
Objective To consolidate ten years of clinical experience on the application of breast fiberoptic ductoscopy (FDS) in breast intra-ductal lesion.
Methods The clinical data of 1 368 cases of patients with nipple discharge were retrospectively collected and analyzed.
Results Significant differences were observed in the FDS diagnoses of patients with nipple discharge. The rates of tumor detection by FDS diagnosis were significantly higher when bloody and serous nipple discharge was used rather than milky and watery nipple discharge. For non-tumor nipple discharge, local drug perfusion via FDS was an effective treatment. A total of 303 patients had tumor resection or segmentectomy under localization via FDS, and 44 had segmentectomy after breast duct infusion of methylene blue.The diagnostic rate of localization via FDS (97.0%) was higher than that of breast duct infusion of methylene blue (86.4%).
Conclusion FDS is an accurate method for diagnosing patients with nipple discharge. In addition, it is also a good local drug perfusion method for patients with breast inflammatory nipple discharge ductoscopy. For patients with tumorous nipple discharge, localization via FDS can help improve the detection of the lesions, which can be removed by surgery.