Role of Color Doppler Ultra Sound Versus Histopathology in Differentiating Malignant From Benign Breast Masses | ||
Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal | ||
Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 155-159 PDF (0 K) | ||
Author | ||
Hassan H. Zaini | ||
Abstract | ||
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Cancer of breast is by far one of the most important clinical problems that concerns the surgeon. It is the commonest form of cancer in females, when detected early and given the proper treatment can be cured. Color Doppler imaging is modern technique that can be used in preoperative assessment of breast lumps. OBJECTIVE : To asses the role of color doppler imaging in differentiating malignant from benign breast lumps in comparison with the histopathology in AL- Najaf teaching hospital. METHODS: Total number of patients was 80 female of different age groups were assessed during the period from first of February 2004 to the first of February 2006 , presented with variable palpable breast masses. After clinical assessment, all our patients underwent , color doppler imaging and then subjected to the excisional biopsy and histopathology for confirmation of the diagnosis. RESULTS: The results of color doppler imaging for all our patients were found as follow, benign lumps in 54 cases (67.5%),malignant lumps in 26 cases (32.5%),two cases diagnosed as benign by color doppler imaging proved to be malignant by histopathology giving ( 2.5%),false negative rate. All obtained results of sensitivity, specificity and over all accuracy of color doppler imaging respectively as follow (92.85%),(100%),and(97.5%). CONCLUSION: Color doppler imaging is highly sensitive and specific method in evaluating malignant breast masses and is painless, non-invasive and time saving procedure, so we can reduce the rate of unnecessary surgery for histopathology. | ||
Keywords | ||
Colored Doppler Imaging; Breast Mass; breast cancer | ||
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