Breast Elastography: Present and Future

Abstract

Objective Make a literature review of breast elastography an imaging technique not so new today for many still unknown in diagnostic ultrasound which emerges in order to characterize complementarily tissues of the breast contributing to differential diagnosis between benign and malignant lesions Review Today breast cancer is by far the most common cancer in women Mammography and ultrasound has become an indispensable diagnostic tandem within the breast image increasing the sensitivity of ultrasound mammography by and both techniques are able to characterize most breast lesions Using these techniques together we achieve a sensitivity of and a specificity of specially in dense breasts where mammography is significantly limited