Modern condition and development prospects of the endoscopic breast ductoscopy (the review of the literature and own experience)

Summary. Authors have analyzed last achievements in the field of endoscopic breast ductoscopy and specified in advantages and disadvantages of the given technique. Own observations are resulted in 137 cases. It is shown, that using the endoscopic breast ductoscopy in a complex with traditional methods (cytologic, X-ray, ultrasonic) raised the efficiency of diagnostics of the intraductal breast neoplasms from 55,2 to 75,9%. The possible reasons false positive results endoscopic breast ductoscopy are reflected and the basic directions of the further improvement of the given technique are outlined.