THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MICROVESSEL DENSITY OF BREAST MASS AND COLOR DOPPLER FLOW IMAGING

Objective:To detect the diagnostic value of color doppler flow imaging (CDFI) for breast mass.Methods:The microvessel density (MVD) of 46 cases with breast mass smaller than 2 cm in diameter was measured by immunohisto\|chemistry CD 34 and the correlation between flow grade of CDFI and MVD was studied.Results:The intensity of signal and velocity of flow was showed to be positively related to MVD.The correlation coefficients of benign and malignant tumor were 0.843 and 0.612 respectively.The diagnostic accuracy of small breast cancer was improved from 71.74% to 93.48% significantly by using B-US+CDFI compared with B-US.Conclusion:The results shows that the application of color doppler in distinguishing benign from malignant breast mass is very important.