The using of the instrumental methods of skin thickness measurement for the diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer

The substance of the skin in 100 patients with inflammatory breast cancer was studied. Diagnosed skin thickening more than 2,5-3 mm compared with a symmety part of an opposite breast. The average thickness of the skin cancer edema is5,6 mm and maximum one is 14 mm. The sensitivity of the digital mammography and sonography was 97%, of plikometry - 94%. Digitally instrumental determination of skin thickness using radiodiagnostic methods and by plikometry is precise and objective method of diagnostic of breast cancer edema.