Breast ultrasound
| Breast ultrasound | |
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| Specialty | {{#statements:P1995}} |
| 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]
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