Advantages and disadvantages of breast ultrasound examination

The pressure of daily life and work is particularly high, and it has brought some physical crises and harms to many female friends. Friends with oily breasts will feel swelling, pain and redness in their breasts. At this time, we need to undergo a breast B-ultrasound examination to see if there is a new disease. Then let us learn about it together.

Advantages and disadvantages of breast ultrasound

1. Advantages:

(1) Breast ultrasound examination is painless and does not cause radiation damage to the patient. It can be performed repeatedly and is suitable for women of any age and any physiological period, including pregnancy and lactation.

(2) The patient does not need to make any special preparations before the examination. The operation is simple and there are no blind spots. Ultrasound can show areas that cannot be illuminated by mammography, such as the edge of the breast, small, underdeveloped breasts, or chest wall masses.

(3) Ultrasound has good resolution for soft tissues and can clearly display the various layers of the breast and chest wall. It can determine the anatomical location and level of the lesion, differentiate between breast masses and chest wall masses, and even detect small masses of several millimeters.

(4) Determine the physical properties of the mass (cystic, solid, or a combination of cystic and solid).

(5) Based on the image appearance and blood flow characteristics, the benign or malignant nature of the tumor can be inferred, and the presence of local or distant metastasis can be detected.

(6) Perform puncture, biopsy and treatment under ultrasound guidance.

(7) Can be used for screening and follow-up of breast cancer.

(8) For dense breasts that are difficult to detect with mammography, ultrasound has a more obvious diagnostic advantage.

2. Disadvantages

(1) When there is no mass or the mass image is not obvious, ultrasound is difficult to detect tiny calcifications and burr-like changes that are easily detected by molybdenum target X-ray.

(2) In real-time, breast masses, whether benign or malignant, are often hypoechoic. For masses smaller than 10 mm, their sonograms are often lacking in specificity and blood flow signals are not obvious, making it difficult to determine whether they are benign or malignant. The fat in the gland or subcutaneous fat is not easy to distinguish from lesions.

(3) Parasternal lymph node metastasis is difficult to display due to obstruction by the sternum and ribs.

(4) Due to the heterogeneity of glandular structure and the large area of ​​breast examination, it is easy to miss smaller lesions. The examiner must be careful and pay attention to the patient's chief complaint and clinical examination to minimize missed diagnoses.

(5) The ultrasound instrument and probe frequency directly affect the image quality and lesion display. The examiner's knowledge of breast-related knowledge, operational skills, and thinking and analytical ability have a certain impact on the accuracy of diagnosis.

In the above article, we learned about breast B-ultrasound examination. In daily life, we should pay attention to our body care, especially female friends whose immunity is relatively weak. In addition, in daily life, the pressure of work and various external pressures bring them gynecological diseases.