Ultrasound
An ultrasound gives us a detailed look of your breast tissues.
Ultrasound gives us a detailed look of the breast tissues and helps our doctors determine the nature of breast lumps.
It uses sound waves to produce a picture of the breast tissues, and can determine if the lump is solid (made of cells) or if it is a cyst (made of liquid).
Ultrasound can usually help determine if the lump is benign or malignant, based on its shape, location and other characteristics.
If the ultrasound scan is inconclusive, our doctors may recommend you to do a follow-up or a biopsy.
Non-invasive and painless
Fast and painless, high-resolution sound waves are used to scan your breasts to produce a picture of the breast tissues.
Safe for pregnant women
As ultrasound does not use ionising radiation, it can be safely used for pregnant women.
What happens during your breast ultrasound?
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You will need to undress from waist up and lie down with your arms raised above your head.
The ultrasound scan will take between 30 minutes to an hour.
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Water-based warm gel will be applied on your body during examination. This is used to eliminate any air between the probe and your body.The water-based gel contains no medication, so there is no risk of having an adverse reaction.
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Our female sonographer, who is a specially-trained technologist, will carry out your breast ultrasound.
A transducer is used to produce and collect sound waves which produces images of your breast tissues.
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After which, interpretation of the images will be conducted by our specially-trained doctors.
Rest assured, the entire ultrasound procedure is painless.