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Abstract
Inflammatory breast disorders are frequently encountered clinical complaint and can occur in healthy, non-lactating women of all ages. They range from benign up to malignant forms and it remains a challenge to distinguish acute mastitis from malignancy, especially form inflammatory breast carcinoma (IBC), by clinical or imaging features. It is very important to distinguish IBC from other types of mastitis because there are major differences in its prognosis, and treatment.
Up to date, histopathology is still the gold standard method for confirming the diagnosis of inflammatory breast carcinoma. However, not all patients with inflammatory breast diseases have to be exposed to the bothersome of biopsies and their invasive techniques in the aim of reaching a proper diagnosis. In the light of this concern, breast ultrasound -being non-invasive, less painful, and cost-effective- has been considered a very valuable diagnostic tool in the evaluation of Inflammatory breast disorders.
This study aims at assessing the use of ultrasonography in the diagnosis, and differentiation of both benign and malignant inflammatory breast disorders.
The study was designed as a cross sectional descriptive study included 53 female patients with clinical signs of mastitis presenting to the diagnostic Radiology department in Suez Canal university hospital & Ismailia cancer teaching hospital referred from the “Surgical Breast Clinic” and surgical outpatient’s clinics, in the period from January 2019 to December 2019.