THE ROLE OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN THE SYMPTHOMATIC LACTATING BREAST

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate clinical utility of bilateral breast ultrasonography in sympthomatic lactating breast. Methods and Materials: During 1 year we performed 968 ultrasonographic examines; 964 women and 4 men. The women were age 18 to 82, including asympthomatic patients and sympthomatic patients with palpable lesions in their breast. There were 14 sympthomatic women, age 21 to 37, who were in lactating period. US system for conventional sonography ALOKA 1000 with multifrequentional linear aray (most frequently 7,5MHz) was used. Results: In the series of 14 symthomatic women in lacta…