Ultrasound report.

Ddub

can anyone help me figure out what this means? It’s from my ultrasound report. They want to do a biopsy and my primary doctor is sending me to a breast specialist.

Hypoechoic mass with mild angulated margins and internal color flow measuring 5mm at 1 o’clock position Additional circumscribed mass with internal calcifications measures 7mm

Georgia1

Ddub, that doesn't sound too bad so I'm hoping they are just being cautious. DJMammo is the expert and has a thread called "Interpreting your report." So you may want to post there. But here's his guide to "good" and "bad" terms:

GOOD: Oval; parallel; circumscribed; anechoic; hyperechoic; isoechoic; posterior enhancement or good through-transmission; avascular; macrocalcifications include pop corn, large rod like, rim, milk-of-calcium.

BAD: Irregular; non-parallel (can also be written as "taller-than-wide"); not-circumscribed margins includes indistinct, angular, microlobulated, and spiculated; hypoechoic; posterior shadowing; architectural distortion; internal vascularity; microcalcifications including amorphous, coarse heterogeneous, branching, fine pleomorphic.

Keeping you in my thoughts.

Ddub

thank you so much for your response.I’m hoping they are too. My mom is currently battling stage 4 breast cancer. Her second bout with it so fingers crossed it’s nothing.