The radiological diagnosis of mammary cysts is not easy in glandular or fibrous breasts intensely radiopaque, whereas such alterations are better visualized in atrophic, fatty, radiotransparent breasts. The authors performed systematically the liquid withdrawing puncture in cystic formations discovered with the clinico-radiographical examination and filled these with air. The described procedure serves the twofold purpose of demonstrating intracystic neoformations developed in the wall and projecting into the cavity and of better recognizing normal or pathological pericystic structures. The procedure is safe, easy to perform, and supplies generally demonstrative radiographical pictures.
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