Dear Women's Imaging Insider,
Dear Women's Imaging Insider,
In this edition of the Insider, we turn our attention to the role of ultrasound in breast and gynecologic imaging.
First we have two studies from the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, which examine the pros and cons of performing breast ultrasound with power Doppler. In the first paper, researchers in Philadelphia compared mammography with contrast-enhanced 2-D and 3-D power Doppler imaging for breast cancer diagnosis. In the second paper, a group from the University Hospital of Gazi in Ankara, Turkey, evaluated the usefulness of contrast-enhanced power Doppler ultrasound on the differential diagnosis of breast lesions. You can read the details here.
On that same subject, a group of surgeons from Columbia University in New York City said they believed that ultrasound was the right modality for imaging the postsurgical recurrence of breast cancer in the interpectoral lymph nodes. Click here to read this article.
Switching gears, investigators from Berlin suggested that monthly sonographic measurements of fetal abdominal circumference could aid in the management of women with gestational diabetes mellitus. Click here to learn more. Finally, radiologists at Einstein College of Medicine in New York City offer a description of the sonographic appearances of the tubal ring of ectopic pregnancy with corpus luteum of the ovary.
