[Doppler ultrasound study of breast tumors using color Doppler ultrasound, duplex ultrasound and the CW Doppler ultrasound]

Zentralbl Gynakol. 1992;114(5):249-53.
[Article in German]

Abstract

The preoperative examinations by doppler-sonography of 83 patients with tumors of the breast are presented. The examinations are done with newest technique: duplex-sonography in slow-flow-technique (AI 3200, Dornier); colour-sonography in MEM-technique (AI 5200, Dornier) and synchronical colour-doppler++ (Quantum 2000, Siemens) and CW-doppler-sonography (Vasocope 3, Kranzbühler). There is a markable difference between the side of carcinoma and the normal side as well as pre- and postmenopausal patients. No difference is shown in cases of benign tumors and the normal side. The increasing blood flow of a malignant tumor is showed in changing the doppler parameters (A/B-ratio and resistance-index) and in the doppler wave form. The number of vessels found in or around a tumor is not a good criteria to find malignant diseases, the best criteria is the difference between sides of the mamma.

MeSH terms

  • Blood Flow Velocity / physiology
  • Breast / blood supply
  • Breast Neoplasms / blood supply
  • Breast Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Breast Neoplasms / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Reference Values
  • Regional Blood Flow / physiology
  • Ultrasonography, Mammary / instrumentation*