Latest scanning facilities on a new ACUSON Antares ultrasound system are benefiting patients attending the Breast Screening Unit of North Middlesex University Hospital in London.
Confirming the Antares’ advantages to the hospital, Dr Tom Mutazindwa, consultant radiologist, said: “This model allows us to establish more precise diagnoses, and in cases where breast carcinoma has been confirmed, the Antares can be used in the staging process by offering reliable imaging results on the liver.
Using ultrasound guided biopsy, we are able to obtain highly accurate sampling results on very small lesions, with invariably no need to revert to other more expensive and time-consuming methods. Using ultrasound guided techniques also enable us to core an increasing number of clustered microcalcification, something that was previously difficult to impossible. Additional advantages to us include the image storage facilities where patients’ results can be played back and reviewed later at leisure, stored or downloaded for teaching purposes.”
