[Breast sonography with the new water bath scanning technics].
At 1188 patients we investigated the value of sonography of the breast in the detection of malignancies. We used 2 automatic multitransducer water-bath scanners, at first the 3 MH Octoson, then System 1, a dedicated 4 MH water-bath breast scanner which allows for compound and simple scans in any scanning plane. The sensitivity for detection of 63 malignancies was 87%. Other pathologies were 18 fibroadenomas, 160 cysts, 6 abscesses, 2 fatty necroses, 2 papillomas, 9 prostheses, one of them broken. The difficulties associated with differential diagnosis in breast sonography are discussed in detail.
D000038:Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis; D000232:Adenofibroma / Q000175:diagnosis; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005348:Fibrocystic Breast Disease / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010212:Papilloma / Q000175:diagnosis; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*
Mammasonographie mit neuen Wasserbad-Scan-Techniken.