Sonographic morphology of the breast.

The interpretation of ultrasound mammograms is complicated by the heterogeneous tissue structure of the breast. To improve the diagnostic analysis, a method has been developed which enables us to correlate ultrasound images of mastectomized specimen with the cross-sectional anatomy, the computerized tomography, the X-ray photographs of the specimen and the histopathologic study of the corresponding gross serial sections. Some echophenomena considering the propagation properties of ultrasound are discussed.