Breast ultra Sound

BACKGROUND: The introduction of the National Health Service (NHS) Breast Screening Programme has led to a considerable increase in the detection of impalpable breast cancer. Patients with impalpable breast cancer typically undergo oncological resection facilitated either by the insertion of guide wires placed stereo-tactically or through ultra-sound guided skin markings to delineate the extent of a lesion. The need for radiological interventions on the day of surgery adds complexity and introduces the risk that a patient may accidentally transferred to the operating room directly without the image guidance procedure...

BACKGROUND: Neonatal anxiety and depression and breastfeeding cessation are significant public health problems. There is an association between maternal symptoms of anxiety and depression and early breastfeeding cessation. In earlier studies, the causality of this association was interpreted both ways; symptoms of anxiety and depression prepartum significantly impacts breastfeeding, and breastfeeding cessation significantly impacts symptoms of anxiety and depression.First, we aimed to investigate whether breastfeeding cessation is related to an increase in symptoms of anxiety and depression from pregnancy to six months postpartum...

INTRODUCTION: To ensure appropriate axillary surgery is performed at a single operation, we have sought to identify patients with involved nodes who might progress directly to axillary dissection. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We evaluated pre-operative ultrasound of the axilla and intra-operative frozen section of sentinel lymph nodes over a 3-year period. Patients with clinical early breast cancer underwent axillary ultrasound. Abnormal nodes were defined as a cortex > 2...

The incidence of breast cancer in sub-Saharan nations is increasing. There is a worsening scarcity of Human Resource for Health in Uganda in particular and Sub Saharan Africa in general. Resources available for health care are predominantly spent on infectious disease care such as (HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria). These factors and more make the future of breast cancer care including screening in Sub Saharan African grim.Although mass breast cancer screening by mammography has been proved to be efficacious in the developed nations of the world, this has not been replicated in the developing nations because mass screening is not yet possible for the reasons stated...

Novel polymer based photoluminescent nanoparticles were fabricated by ultra-sound induced emulsion polymerization and applied to bioimaging of human breast cancer SK-BR-3 cells after ethylenediamine treatment and conjugation with anti-ErbB2 antibody.

The contribution of breast MR imaging for second intention after a complete assessment (mammography, ultra-sound, and possibly histological) of breast pathology is not any more to show. Its limits are due primarily to its great sensitivity responsible for false positive (20 to 40 %) and to the difficulty in carrying out biopsies under guidance IRM of the lesions not found in second intention by the mammography and ultrasound (50 to 75 %). Its use reasoned by respecting the indications recognized as useful and validated for the clinical plan is an imperative condition to avoid noxious assumptions of responsibility of the patients...

Screening for breast cancer in high-risk women could be seen through the general criteria for cancer screening. The attributable part of BRCA in breast cancer is estimated to be between 2 and 5%. For these women, breast cancer screening lay between prevention with low risk/benefit efficacy and prophylactic mastectomy with high efficacy but low acceptability. Risk reduction could be achieve with "classic" screening tools (examination, mammography and ultra sound) but should soon benefit from MRI experimental protocols...

Breast conservation therapy for early-stage invasive breast cancer provides survival equivalent to mastectomy. Careful patient selection and surgical technique are necessary to minimize local recurrence. Extensive studies of breast conservation therapy over the past 15 years have identified risk factors for local recurrence, and have proven that certain cases previously thought to be ineligible for lumpectomy (such as occult breast cancer, locally advanced breast cancer, macromastia, and cancer in pregnant patients), can be safely managed with modified BCT approaches...

In the context of researches for studying the possibilities of ultrasonic A-mode research for a diagnosis of thyroid, mamma and abdominal organs affections, in this first part the authors make known the results obtained studying nodulary lesions. After a short notice about ultra-sounds, echoscopic apparati and methods for echoscopic research, they outline the semeiologic characters for echoscopic A-mode diagnostic and they stop on echoscopic obtained pictures: liquid crops, nodulary images with homogeneus echostructure scarcely ecogena and nodulary images with not homogeneus echostructure highly ecogena...