A STUDY OF MAMMOGRAPHY AND HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN VARIOUS BREAST LESIONS

Sonography was used in Breast Imaging as it had an advantage in Breast Cancer Imaging. The functional unit of Breast is the terminal ductolobular unit (TDLU) , which of the site of origin of most breast pathology and abberations of normal development and involution(ANDI).Mammary gland projects as a triangle in mammogram.Mammographic patterns of normal breast and its relationship with carcinoma are described as N1,P1,P2 and DY. P2 and DY show higher risk of developing carcinoma than N1 and P1.Mammographic compression pulls a lesion away from the chest wall and Sonographic compression pushes close to it.BIRADS helps in standardising sonographic, mammographic clinical abnormalities.The combined use of X ray Mammography, High resolution Ultrasonography and use of BIRADS categorisation helps in diagnosing breast lesions effectively.sonography helps in evaluating palpable lumps when there is dense tissue in the area of palpable lump on mammography.sonography helps in preventing biopsy by showing a normal or a definitively benign findings.mammogram is an effective non invasive means of searching for breast cancer.this study is done to increase the awareness among women population to go in for early screening of breast lesions.