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Ultrasound Diagnosis of Mammographicaily Occult Minimal Carcinoma of the Breast

Tower Imaging, St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, California; Department of Radiological Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Faina Gurfinkel, RDMS

Towver Imaging, Century City Hospital, Century City, CA

Joyce Wolke, RT, (R)(M)

Dawn Kushwaha, RT,(R)(M)

Tower Imaging, St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica, California

Minimal cancer, defined by the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project, includes tumors up to 1 cm in size. The detection of these malignancies by either mammography or ultrasound has great prognostic importance because axillary lymph node involvement correlates directly with tumor size. Although ultrasound is a complimentary technique to mammography, tumors can be detected sonographically when mammography is negative. Additionally, cancers may be seen sonographically in instances where only subtle architectural distortion is seen mammographically. In younger women, who have denser breasts, ultrasound is often the primary diagnostic modality used to work-up a palpable mass.

Key Words: breast cancer • mammography • ultrasound

Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Vol. 11, No. 3, 141-143 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/875647939501100307


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