The Role Of Soft Tissue Mammography, Magnetic Resonance Mammography And Ultrasonography In Evaluation Of Breast Masses

Breast cancer is the most common cancer, and is one of the leadingcause of cancer related mortality in women. Inspite of the fact that breast isa superficial organ, clinical examination may not reveal some pathologicalproblems. Furthermore, clinical examination would not easily detect sub-centimeter lesions if they were deeply situated within the breast and wouldnot confidently differentiate between benign and malignant breast lesions.In recent years our knowledge of breast cancer has progressedrapidly resulting in new approaches and techniques, the main goal of theclinician is to differentiate between benign and malignant masses.Still nowadays the commonest investigation is mammography butdue to difficulties in interpretation of mammogram as in delineation of thelesion margin or the size of the tumour when arising in dense breast(special for women ages from 20-35 years) with hazards of ionizingradiation to these categories young females. So additional modalityultrasonography including Doppler imaging can play an important role inthe detection of a variety of breast lesions especially in young females,pregnant and lactating patients or those with dense breasts.MR imaging of the breast can be used as a problem solving methodwhenever conventional modalities are equivocal and can reveal lesions thatare occult at mammography and sonography.The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinically palpable breastmasses by Soft tissue mammography, Magnetic resonance mammographyand ultrasonography including power and color Doppler aiming todecreasing the number of unnecessary biopsies.Our study included 70 female patient with age ranged between 18and 72 years old .AIl patients were subjected to the previous modalities.After that all detecet breast masses were documented by histopathologicaldiagnosis.