Target ultrasonic mammography. An additional diagnostic tool for the detection of breast cancer.

The results of a prospective ultrasonic evaluation of a series of 654 unselected patients with histologically proven breast lesions are presented. Target ultrasonic mammography denotes a special procedure to examine a specific area of the breast. Complementary to clinical examination and mammography, this method increases the number of detected breast cancers by 4% above the clinical and mammographical results; 11.6% more biopsies have been requested. With this target scanning method, the ultrasonic diagnosis is not influenced by dense or fatty tissue, nor by tumor size.