title: [Ultrasonography of the breast].
abstract: Mammography, which is the first-choice examination for breast disease, has some limitations despite recent technical improvement, which has lead to better image quality and reduced x-ray exposure. It is less accurate in dense breasts, which are sometimes difficult to read and in which a palpable lesion or an infraclinical cancer is often not recognized. In such cases, ultrasonography is very useful and should be used as the second examination technique. Breast sonography done by a skilled sonographer with a good equipment can raise the accuracy for benign or malignant breast lesions.
authors.affiliation: Institut de radiologie et d'imagerie médicale, Sion.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fournier
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Androux
mesh_terms: D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary / Q000379:methods*
vernacular_title: Ultrasonographie in der Senologie.