Ecografía mamaria complementaria a la mamografía de cribado

Mammography is routinely used for population-based breast cancer screening. However, the sensitivity of mammography is greatly reduced in dense breasts, and can be as low as 50%. In these cases, complementary ultrasound can play an important role in improving sensitivity, achieving cancer detection rates of up to 0.3%. Nevertheless, ultrasound reduces specificity and increases recall and biopsy rates. Manual ultrasound is operator dependent, is time consuming for the radiologist and does not allow a retrospective review. Automated ultrasound resolves several of these limitations and consequently could become used as an additional technique to mammography, especially in women with dense breasts.