الفهرس 
Anatomy of the BreastOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Breast cancer is a major health problem that warranted efforts to be paid
in order to increase the diagnostic capability of the routinely used
diagnostic aids. Ultrasound elastography is one of the newly introduced
ultrasound built-in software that could increase the diagnostic capability
of conventional ultrasound based on the fact that breast cancer is usually
harder than benign breast lesions.
The routinely used method for classification of breast lesions according
to tissue elasticity is the color coding as well as the strain ratio methods.
Ultrasound elastography, does not only have a confirmatory diagnostic
tool with sono-mammography, but also can be a beneficial technique by
which ultrasound BIRADS downgrading of benign lesions could be
elicited, thus reducing the number of unnecessary breast biopsies, and
consequently improve the patients compliance .
However, ultrasound elastography has some limitations, such as operator
dependency, inter, intraobserver variability, and results variability
according to the internal structure of lesion being evaluated. So the cases
should be evaluated as a whole regarding the history, clinical data, sonomammographic
findings, and ultrasound elastographic evaluation to
attain the best diagnostic results, and to avoid false positive, and negative
diagnoses.
Key words: Breast Lesions –Conventional Ultrasound – Ultrasound
Elastography –Strain Ratio.