Calas Maria Julia Gregório, Pereira Fernanda Philadelpho Arantes, Gonçalves Leticia Pereira, Lopes Flávia Paiva Proença Lobo
Centro de Diagnóstico por Imagem (CDPI)/DASA, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
CDPI Mulher - Centro de Diagnóstico por Imagem (CDPI)/DASA, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Radiol Bras. 2020 Sep-Oct;53(5):293-300. doi: 10.1590/0100-3984.2019.0079.
To evaluate the main technical limitations of automated breast ultrasound and to determine the proportion of examinations excluded.
We evaluated 440 automated breast ultrasound examinations performed, over a 12-month period, by technicians using an established protocol.
In five cases (1.1%), the examination was deemed unacceptable for diagnostic purposes, those examinations therefore being excluded.
Automated breast ultrasound is expected to overcome some of the major limitations of conventional ultrasound in breast cancer screening. In Brazil, this new method can be accepted for inclusion in routine clinical practice only after its advantages have been validated in the national context.
评估自动乳腺超声的主要技术局限性,并确定被排除检查的比例。
我们评估了技术人员在12个月期间按照既定方案进行的440例自动乳腺超声检查。
有5例(1.1%)检查因诊断目的被认为不可接受,因此这些检查被排除。
自动乳腺超声有望克服传统超声在乳腺癌筛查中的一些主要局限性。在巴西,只有在本国背景下验证其优势后,这种新方法才能被接受纳入常规临床实践。