title: [Three-dimensional ultrasound study (3-D sonography) of the female breast].
abstract: Three-dimensional sonography of the mamma with a Voluson annular array transducer (10 MHz) (Kretztechnik, Austria) is a new method applicable in differential diagnosis of mamma foci. 50 patients (19 of them with breast cancer) were thus pre-surgically examined. Both sectional and stereoscopic representations were made use of. The suspected diagnoses and their correspondences with post-surgical findings were compared to the correspondences obtained through 2D-sonography. 3D-sonography produced 4 cases of the incorrectly positive diagnosis breast cancer, 2D-sonography 2 cases of incorrectly negative diagnoses. Other advantages of 3D-sonography over 2D-sonography include: better judgement of the conditional of focal environs (infiltration), existence and form of intracystic structures and of multifocal disease, short duration of examination, possible re-diagnosing of stored data.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Charité, Medizinische Fakultät, Humbodlt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsfrauenklinik und Poliklinik.
authors.forename: J U
authors.initials: JU
authors.lastname: Blohmer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bollmann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Heinrich
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Paepke
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lichtenegger
mesh_terms: D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D018275:Carcinoma, Lobular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005348:Fibrocystic Breast Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D014159:Transducers; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary / Q000295:instrumentation*
vernacular_title: Die dreidimensionale Ultraschalluntersuchung (3D-Sonographie) der weiblichen Brustdrüse.