Mammographic And Sonomammographic Evaluation Of Breast Masses With Pathological Correlation

  • Nandan Kumar Shilpa N
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N. K. Shilpa N, “Mammographic And Sonomammographic Evaluation Of Breast Masses With Pathological Correlation”, ijmhs, vol. 6, no. 5, Sep. 2016.
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Abstract

Background: Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers in women. All palpable breast masses require proper work up, early diagnosis and management. Triple assessment includes clinical examination, imaging and fine needle aspiration cytology or core biopsy. Aim: To evaluate the role of mammography and sonomammography in diagnosing breast mass lesions individually and when combined, with pathological correlation. Materials and methods: 126 breast masses from 115 patients were evaluated with Sonography and mammography. The lesions were assessed based morphological criteria. Pathological correlation was done, which was taken as standard. Sensitivity, specificity were derived for Sonography and mammography individually and also combined. Results: overall sensitivity and specificity for mammography are 79.5 and 80.4 respectively. Sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing breast lesions with Sonography are 85.45 and 89.31. Combining the mammography and USG, sensitivity, specificity were 94.25 and 96.2 respectively. These results were significantly high than mammography or USG alone. Conclusion: Present study confirms the higher combined sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for ultrasonography and mammography for detection of breast masses than individual modality.

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