The sonographic appearances of ten breast carcinomas associated with microcalcifications were reviewed. None of the clusters of microcalcifications were visualized sonographically. All of the tumors were seen on sonomammography as either solid mass lesions or areas of acoustical shadowing.
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J Ultrasound Med
November 1983
The sonographic appearances of ten breast carcinomas associated with microcalcifications were reviewed. None of the clusters of microcalcifications were visualized sonographically. All of the tumors were seen on sonomammography as either solid mass lesions or areas of acoustical shadowing.
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November 1993
Division of Nuclear Medicine/Ultrasonography and Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida 33140.
Automated sonomammography and xeromammography were compared in a group of 293 patients referred for a variety of symptomatic and asymptomatic conditions. Twenty of the 293 patients had mammographic evidence of carcinoma that was confirmed pathologically. Seventeen of these patients had sonomammographic evidence of a solid mass; 11 of these demonstrated signs of malignancy, such as irregular border, and desmoplastic reaction manifested by thickening of Cooper's ligaments, skin retraction, periductal fibrosis or disruption of architecture.
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