DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i10.042

Pages: 3900-3906

This was descriptive, comparative study, done in Khartoum Oncology Hospital in the period from February 2015 to April 2017, to compare between ultrasound and mammography in diagnosis of malignant breast masses, the study done in 201 women suffering from breast mass and the confirm diagnosis it had malignant . The data was collected by data collection sheet specially design for this study and including all variables then analyzed by statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). The study found that most breast malignant masses occur in age group (41 to 70 years) ,the ultrasound features of malignant was mostly irregular , hypoechoic, speculated, punctate calcification and associated lymphadenopathy, the mammographic features was mostly hyperdense, irregular, calcification , lymphadenopathy and the biopsy reveal that the most common type of malignant was invasive ductal carcinoma 97.50%. The study concluded that ultrasound was more accurate and sensitive than mammography for diagnosis of malignant breast masses (97.98%, 83.08 % respectively).