The Clinical Examination of the Breast must Always be Integrated with Breast Ultrasound |Biomedgrid

Breast ultrasounds should be an extension of every clinical examination because they offer critical advantages including increasing diagnostic accuracy and, more importantly, reducing patients' distress by streamlining the visit and the whole process of diagnosing. They shall not be considered substitutes for ultrasounds performed by formal radiologists, but should instead be regarded as complementary act enabling the physician to correlate the clinical examination with the ultrasounds findings by palpating the lump or clinical region of concern while scanning (echo-palpation).