Keywords:
Breast, Ultrasound physics, Ultrasound, Elastography, Equipment, Tissue characterisation, Cancer, Image verification
Authors:
D. Sieron, D. T. Knap; Katowice/PL
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2013/C-2411
Purpose
Currently in Poland 12 000 women suffer from breast cancer; that number means the level of standardized coefficient amounting to 40,7/100 000.
For women aged from 50 to 69 years the screening MMG breast examinations is the first contact diagnostic method; it often is the first and in many cases,
the last form of breast diagnostics carried out in female patients within the above-mentioned age group.
Lesions that are radiologically suspicious in MMG examination are assessed in BI-RADS scale and are subjected to more detailed diagnostics using USG and fine- or thick-needle biopsy in order to provide a further diagnostics enhancement and histopathological verification.
Female patients with cancerous lesions undergo surgical procedures,
chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
In this study,
we present our own experience and review of literature concerning implementation of USG examination with the option of elastographic assessment of lesions.