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10385953

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-8-16
pubmed:abstractText
In a prospective study, 200 healthy female breasts were examined using color Doppler sonography to study the detectability and the resistive indices (RIs) of arterial vessels. In each breast, we attempted to detect two to three vessels and recorded the frequency spectrum with RI of each vessel. Blood vessels (n = 522) could be demonstrated in 196 (98%) breasts. Continuous diastolic flow (RI < 1) was found in 520 (99.6%) vessels. The mean RI of premenopausal women was 0.64; that of postmenopausal women was 0.70. This difference is highly statistically significant (p < 0.0001), but there is a marked overlap between the RIs of both groups. The variation in RI values of all women (up to 0.45), as well as in the breasts of the same woman (up to 0.31), was considerable. We conclude that modern color Doppler devices permit the detection of blood flow in the breast with regularity. Continuous diastolic flow (RI < 1) is a typical flow pattern. The variations of RI between women, and even for the same woman, are remarkable. The mean RI of premenopausal women is lower than the value for postmenopausal women.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0301-5629
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1307-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Color Doppler sonography of normal breasts: detectability of arterial blood vessels and typical flow patterns.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Barmherzige Brueder, Salzburg, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article