What You Need To Know About Breast Ultrasound

Brian L. Sprague Phd. et al published an article online Dec. 8, 2014 in the Annals of Internal medicine which discusses the pros and cons of breast ultrasound screening in women who were shown to have dense breasts on mammography screening. Readers should be aware that there is a an ongoing debate in the medical community about the benefits of screening mammography and the use of ultrasound screening in women with dense breasts. Breast ultrasound has been routinely used for years in women with a suspicious finding on their mammogram or a clinically palpable abnormality picked up by themselves or their physicians on routine clinical breast exam. Compared to MRI,  breast ultrasound is much less expensive and that is one reason why it has been considered as a possible screening modality. Since so many women in our practice request screening breast ultrasound in lieu of a