The breast ultrasound, however, may also help the physician to identify anomalies in the breast region, mainly in patients who present radiologically dense breasts, that is, in breasts where there is a higher incidence of fibroglandular tissue, which may impair the visualization of nodules by mammography.

This situation is very common, especially in patients under 35 years of age. In these cases, the doctor may use ultrasonography to investigate the presence of breast lumps or cysts.  

Ultrasonography is also indicated whenever the patient presents any alteration in the mammography results. In this case, the ultrasonography works as a complementary examination to aid in the indication or not of a biopsy.

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