What happens there - if you have an abnormal mammogram result?
If you have an abnormal mammogram, you will have additional tests and perhaps meet with a surgeon. The diagnostic tests for whether the abnormal area on your mammogram is a cancer may involve one or more of the following tests:
Clinical examination:
The examination of your breasts should be done by your physician radiologist or a surgeon to find out if there is a knot in the area of abnormal mammography.
Diagnostic Mammography:
Cliches mammographiques localized expansion to try to better see the anomaly.
Ultrasound:
Ultrasound is often used to find out if there is a solid or cystic mass
Puncture cytological:
The puncture of a lump or mass is usually done under ultrasonographic. If it is a cyst, the fluid was immediately evacuated, it is a solid mass of cells are taken to be analyzed under a microscope. This gesture is usually painless because of the thinness of the needle does not require local anesthetic in general.
Biopsies in the big needle:
The gesture is the same as before, but the needle is bigger, a local anesthesia is always necessary. The fragment also charged under control radiographic ouéchographique help to determine if the tissue is cancerous
Surgical Biopsy:
A portion of the area suspect is removed surgically. In absence of a palpable nodule, the identification of the anomalous zone must be made in advance either by mammography or ultrasound. The surgeon then will the exact spot to withdraw. This gesture is generally under general or local anesthesia and leaves a scar.
