Target ultrasonic mammography. An additional diagnostic tool for the detection of breast cancer.
The results of a prospective ultrasonic evaluation of a series of 654 unselected patients with histologically proven breast lesions are presented. Target ultrasonic mammography denotes a special procedure to examine a specific area of the breast. Complementary to clinical examination and mammography, this method increases the number of detected breast cancers by 4% above the clinical and mammographical results; 11.6% more biopsies have been requested. With this target scanning method, the ultrasonic diagnosis is not influenced by dense or fatty tissue, nor by tumor size.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000379:methods*