Abstract:Objective To analyze the characteristics of contrast-enhanced ultrasound and its diagnostic value in special types of breast cancer. Methods A total of 396 breast cancer patients who were admitted to our hospital from January 2018 to January 2020 were selected as the research subjects. The conventional ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound were performed before surgery to analyze the characteristics of special types of breast cancer. Postoperative pathological outcomes were used as the standard diagnosis and the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) was used to analyze the diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in special types of breast cancer. Results Among the 396 breast cancer patients, 362 were non-special types of breast cancer and 34 were special types of breast cancer. There were differences in the morphology, margin, angioarchitecture, the distribution of the contrast media, filling defect area and tumor size among distinct types of breast cancer under the contrast-enhanced ultrasound (P < 0.05). The arrival time (AT) and time to peak (TTP) of the contrast media in mucinous carcinoma were significantly longer than those in invasive lobular carcinoma, medullary carcinoma, intraductal papillary carcinoma (P < 0.05). The peak intensity (PI) of the contrast media in medullary carcinoma and intraductal papillary carcinoma was significantly larger than that in invasive lobular carcinoma and mucinous carcinoma (P < 0.05). Besides, the accuracy of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the diagnosis of special types of breast cancer was higher than that of conventional ultrasound (P < 0.05). After ROC curve analysis, the AUC of ultrasound contrast diagnosis of special types of breast cancer was 0.842, which was significantly greater than 0.675 of conventional ultrasound (P < 0.05). Conclusions The special types of breast cancer show certain features which tend to be more characteristic of benign lesions in contrast-enhanced ultrasound. In addition, the diagnostic accuracy of contrast-enhanced ultrasound is better than that of conventional ultrasound, which deserves further clinical application.