Mammographic Study of Breast Disease

Jeong Hyun Yoo, Chung Sik Rhee

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Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

There are variable radiological method for breast disease including mammography, breast ultrasound, thermography, CT-mammography and MRI. Among these, mammography is the oldest and the gold standard for diagnosis of breast disease. In mammography, the primary consideration is the demonstration of the absence or presence of the breast lesion and if present, the benignity of malignancy of the lesion.

The authors analyzed the mammographic findings in 145 cases pathologically proven cases of various breast disease.

The results were as follows:

1) The most prevalent age group of benign lesion was 3rd-4th decade with frequency of 65.3% and that of malignant lesion was 4th-5th decade with frequency of 66.6%.

2) The most frequent site of breast lesion was upper outer quadrant in benignity and malignancy.

3) Pathologic type of breast malignancy was all of ductal carinoma with various type, and the most common benignity is breast tumor(57.8%) and followed fibrocystic disease(27.3%).

4) The detection of abnormal findings of malignant lesion was 87.5% including mass lesion(75%) and benign lesion was 80.1% including mass lesion(54.5%).

Conclusively, the authours suggest that mammography is very useful method for the detection & diagnosis of breast disease.