Research
Dec 3, 2009
Elastography minimizes benign biopsies
In the growing armoury of breast-cancer screening methods, elastography – an ultrasound technique that examines the relative stiffness of tissues – is shaping up as a promising addition. While standard ultrasound imaging is already used as an adjunct to follow up on suspicious mammographic findings, it has a relatively low specificity that can result in many unnecessary breast biopsies. Elastography has the potential to do much better.
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