Sonographic Features of Benign and Malignant Breast Masses in Sudanese Women

Abstract

Ultrasound technique is an important imaging modality used in the world in diagnostic of breast pathologist. The main objective of this study was to determine the characteristic of different breast lesion in ultrasound images. This study was done on 20 patients in different ages (20 – 70) , who have breast lesion, came to ultrasound department to check up and it was done on Khartoum stat within one month. In our study we found that breast lump affect both young 20-30 years (25%) and elderly women 51-60 years (25%). We found that ultrasound can differentiate between benign and malignant lumps. Most pathology occurrence are abscess (20%) and fibroadenoma (20%) next ductectasia (15%) ,cyst disease (15%) and malignant lumps (15%) the least was lymphadenopathy (10%).