breast Ultrasound –descriptors for mass / Margin /echo/

Ultrasound Labeling
Breast side (left or right)
Quadrant or clock position
Scan plane (radial or antiradial and transverse or longitudinal) 

Number of centimeters from the nipple
Image of pertinent findings,

 with and without measuring calipers 

Technologist’s initials

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Shape

 

Oval 

Round 

Irregular

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Orientation

Orientation

 Parallel
Not parallel

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  Margin

Circumscribed 

Not circumscribed
Indistinct

Angular 

Microlobulated
Spiculated

 Margin breast

 Margin brast

 Margin breast

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 Echo Pattern

 Anechoic 

Hyperechoic 

Complex 

Hypoechoic 

Isoechoic 

Heterogeneous

 

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 Posterior Acoustic Features

None 

Enhancement 

Shadowing 

Combined

Posterior Acoustic Features

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 Calcifications

Calcifications in a mass 

Calcifications outside of a mass 

Intraductal calcifications

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Associated Features

Architectural distortion 

Duct changes
Skin changes
Skin thickening

Skin retraction

Edema

Vascularity Absent
Internal vascularity

Vessels in rim 

 

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Elasticity assessment 

Soft
Intermediate
Hard

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