title: [Role of ultrasonics in the diagnosis of subclinical carcinoma of the breast].
abstract: The authors report the results of a retrospective multicentric study concerning the sonographic diagnosis of subclinical breast cancer, 11,254 patients were examined by means of mammography, with last-generation mammographic equipment, and by means of real-time US with 7.5-10 MHz transducer. Fifty-seven subclinical breast cancers were identified and histologically confirmed. US detected 30/57 neoplastic lesions, versus mammography 47/57; in particular, US identified 10 cancers missed at mammography, while the latter detected 27 malignant lesions missed at US. Mammographic accuracy in the early detection of breast cancers was 82.4%, while US accuracy was 52.6%. Mammographic false negatives were due to opacity of the glandular parenchyma. US false negatives presented at mammography as microcalcifications (67%), lesions less than 1 cm phi (22%), and indirect signs (11%). The results of this study demonstrate the important role of US in women with radiographically-dense parenchymal patterns, but confirm the superiority of mammography in the detection of subclinical breast cancer.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Semeiologia, Diagnostica e Terapia Strumentale, Cattedra di Radiologia, Unviersità, Ancona.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Giuseppetti
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rizzatto
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gozzi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ercolani
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Ruolo dell'ecotomografia nella diagnosi del carcinoma infraclinico della mammella.