Abdomen Sonography: Breast Pathology - Video Lesson

Welcome back to our abdominal extended ultrasound series. In today's lesson, we will focus on breast pathology. Breast ultrasound is one of the most use useful tools we have to evaluate both benign and malignant conditions. As a sonographer, your role is to recognize the patterns that will tell you whether something looks harmless or suspicious, and to know when a finding needs follow-up. In this lesson, we'll walk through the most common breast pathologies you'll encounter on ultrasound, and highlight the features that are most important for clinical practice. Let's start with breast cysts. These are very common and almost always benign. They can be found isolated or amongst a collection of scattered cysts within the breast tissue. On ultrasound, a simple cyst is anechoic, round or oval, has smooth walls, and shows