Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in pregnant women, however there is limited data on breast imaging in symptomatic pregnant women at this time. A team of breast imaging researchers from the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and the Mayo Clinic Department of Radiology sought to change that. They set out to assess the value of targeted breast ultrasound for the primary evaluation of breast symptoms in pregnant women of all ages. Their research was recently published in the Journal of Breast Imaging.
The retrospective study included all pregnant patients who underwent targeted ultrasound for focal breast symptoms at an academic imaging facility from 2000 to 2018 with a review of clinical, imaging, and pathology results. “To our knowledge, our study is the largest series on the evaluation of symptomatic pregnant women to date,” say…
