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DEVELOPMENT OF THE BREASTOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
In our thesis, a study was carried out on a total of 200 patients referred for either diagnostic or screening mammography. They were studied in order to evaluate the role of mammography and ultrasonography in diagnosis of breast lesions, to detect the mammographic and ultrasonographic manifestations of breast lesions, and to estimate the best possible method for early detection of breast cancer by clinical,mammographic and ultrasonographic assessment.The results were similar to those previously published in that, mammography is the primary imaging modality used to detect early, clinically occult breast lesions, however, limitations in sensitivity and specificity remain despite advances in mammographic technique. Care must be taken while reporting a positive mammographic findings, particularly when the mammographic pattern is not highly suggestive of malignancy as in well-defined opacities and indeterminate microcalcifications.Large- core needle biopsy and preoperative localization techniques under stereotaxic guidance are still always indicated either alone or in combination with Fine- needle aspiration cytologic assessment for further evaluation of mammographicall depicted abnormalities.