A Comparison of Mammography and Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Breast Masses in Early Stage

Abstract

Breasts are one of the secondary sexual characteristics in females. They are the rout for of nutrition & growing of infant till 4-6 months of age. Breast diseases are one of the most common diseases in the females of any society. Multiple types of benign breast lesions like fibroadenomas, simple cyst, breast abscess, lymph nodes enlargement and different malignancies are common pathologies of the breast. Up to 30% of women suffer from benign breast disease at any time of their life and this compels them to take the treatment. The prospective clinical study was achieved for 283 women ( age was ranged between 20 60 years) had palpable breast lesion referred by their managing surgeons to the radiological department at Azadi Teaching Hospital, for a period of 8 months (from January 2018 to August of the same year). The study depended firstly in all women on clinical examination/self-breast examination. Results:- 283 patients were included in this study with age between 20 _ 60 ys, most of the patients were diagnosed as fibroadenoma which is most common around 54.9% of the total cases studied, Fibrocystic diseases (Duct ectasia, cysts, and galactocele ) 19.3 %.Followed by infection as mastitis 15.4%, and phyllodes tumor less than 1% approximately and finally carcinoma 9.5%. In conclusions, the results of our study are encouraging to applying the US for masses for differentiating if it pointing to benignant or malignancy status and sonography shouldn't be generally applied to defer the biopsy of a solid mass.