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Ultrasound breast imaging—the method of choice for examining the young patient☆
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It is shown in this paper that relatively simple ultrasound techniques, in combination with specific scanning protocols, can provide a more accurate diagnosis for pathologies in the breast of young subjects than does X-ray mammography.Abstract:
It is shown in this paper that relatively simple ultrasound techniques, in combination with specific scanning protocols, can provide a more accurate diagnosis for pathologies in the breast of young subjects than does X-ray mammography. Static, B -mode ultrasound instrumentation with close-interval scanning and transducers designed for the specific examination regime, was used to examine 116 symptomatic breast patients under 30 yr of age. Approximately 50% of the patients were diagnosed by ultrasound as fibroadenoma cases; biopsy of 22% of these cases indicated 100% diagnostic accuracy for the ultrasound technique. Thirty-one percent of the cases diagnosed as fibroadenoma by ultrasound were also examined by X-ray mammography; in 80% of these cases, X-ray mammography did not adequately image the mass.read more
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Ultrasound tissue characterization of breast biopsy specimens.
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Evaluation of the attenuation coefficients in normal and pathological breast tissue
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