Breast ultrasound
| Breast ultrasound | |
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| Intervention | |
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| ICD-10-PCS | BH4 |
| ICD-9-CM | 88.73 |
| MeSH | D016217 |
Breast ultrasound is the use of medical ultrasonography to perform imaging of the breast.
It can be considered either a diagnostic or a screening procedure.[1]
It may be used either with or without a mammogram.[2]
It may be useful in younger women, where the denser fibrous tissue of the breast may make mammograms more difficult to interpret.[3]
Automated whole-breast ultrasound (AWBU) is an ultrasound investigation of the breast that is largely independent of the operator skill and that allows to reconstruct volumetric images of the breast.
Using high-frequency ultrasound, a diagnostic evaluation of the lactiferous ducts by means of ultrasound (duct sonography) can be performed.[4] In this manner, dilated ducts and intraductal masses can be made visible. Another technique for visualizing the system of lactiferous ducts is galactography, which allows a wider area of the lactiferous duct system to be visualized.[5]
A type of ultrasound examination to measure tissue stiffness, which is used to detect tumours, is elastography.
Breast ultrasound is also used to perform fine-needle aspiration biopsy and ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration of breast abscesses.[6]
References
- ↑ A. Thomas Stavros; Cynthia L. Rapp; Steve H. Parker (1 January 2004). Breast ultrasound. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 978-0-397-51624-7. Retrieved 22 August 2010.
- ↑ "Breast ultrasound: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia". Retrieved 2010-08-22.
- ↑ "FDA approves first breast ultrasound imaging system for dense breast tissue". 18 Sep 2012.
- ↑ Sylvia Helen Heywang-Koebrunner; Ingrid Schreer (15 January 2014). Diagnostic Breast Imaging: Mammography, Sonography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Interventional Procedures. Thieme. p. 199. ISBN 978-3-13-150411-1.
- ↑ Kelly K. Hunt (1 January 2001). Breast Cancer. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-387-95190-4.
- ↑ Trop I, Dugas A, David J, El Khoury M, Boileau JF, Larouche N, Lalonde L (October 2011). "Breast abscesses: evidence-based algorithms for diagnosis, management, and follow-up". Radiographics : a Review Publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc (review) 31 (6): 1683–99. doi:10.1148/rg.316115521. PMID 21997989.
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