What is breast ultrasound (breast ultrasound)?
Breast ultrasound, like any other ultrasound in medicine, is one of the main and most versatile breast imaging tests. It uses high-frequency sound waves emitted by the echo sounder, the part of the device that the ultrasound operator holds and rests on the body part being examined. These completely harmless waves are reflected onto the internal tissues and the machine’s computer converts them into high-resolution images, delineating the internal structure of the breast and any solid or cystic breast lumps. The resulting image is called a breast ultrasound image. Breast ultrasound can be done at all ages and even during sensitive periods such as pregnancy.
How to use breast ultrasound
Breast ultrasound has several uses, depending on the environment in which it is used:
Diagnostic Breast Ultrasound
It is the usual breast ultrasound that you do to your radiologist as an adjunct to mammography. It is used in healthy women, as part of prevention or to investigate findings on mammography. It has an important place for prevention in young women who are not allowed to have a mammogram, and in women with extremely dense breasts.
Invasive Breast Ultrasound
When the breast ultrasound is not just a spectator but takes action, the breast ultrasound is called an interventional breast ultrasound. At the Breast Care Clinic of Patras, Specialist Breast Surgeon – Breast Surgeon Ioannis Haveles uses Interventional Ultrasound to provide various modern diagnostic and therapeutic breast health services:
- Sound guided breast biopsy with a cutting needle:
For bloodless histological diagnosis of any breast lump and preoperative diagnosis of breast cancer - Sound-guided punctures of fluid collections:
Cysts, abscesses, fluids, or lactoceles can be painlessly punctured without requiring surgical openings - Sound-guided preoperative marking of nonpalpable nodules with guide wire
The surgeon is guided to remove a very small nonpalpable tumor by preoperative guide wire placement. Certification of the removal is done by mammography of the preparation and ultrasound of the preparation - Interoperative breast ultrasound
Use of ultrasound during surgery for real-time identification of tumors and checking their resection margins. To make this possible, a portable high-resolution ultrasound system is used at the Breast Care Clinic. John Haveles offers modern multi-tumor resections in one surgery using intraoperative ultrasound. - Invasive ultrasound services at home
The portability of these services allows, by appointment, to perform such minor procedures at home, for people with mobility problems, injuries, special needs. Contact the surgeon for relevant questions.
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