Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Vol 17, Issue 2 109-115, Copyright © 1998 by American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Evaluation of palpable breast masses with color Doppler sonography and gray scale imaging

T. H. Wilkens, B. J. Burke, D. A. Cancelada and I. Jatoi
General Surgery Service, Department of Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234-6200, USA.

Excisional biopsy is the standard method of distinguishing benign from malignant masses of the breast. However, alternative, less invasive methods of diagnosis are needed to reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies, allay anxiety of the patient, and control costs. In this study, we evaluated breast masses in a series of patients using color Doppler sonography and gray scale ultrasonographic features. In all cases, the pathologic diagnosis of the breast mass was subsequently established by excisional biopsy. The accuracy of gray scale sonography exceeded that of color Doppler sonography at a significance level of P < 0.005.

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