**3.7 Documentation**

Accurate documentation is essential for high-quality patient care. Ultrasound report is only as good as the images on which it is based. Images and reports are part of the patient's medical record. Each image should have the facility name, date of examination, patient's first and last name, identification number, and birth date. It should display identification of left or right breast and lesion's location. It should indicate transducer orientation within the breast (radial, antiradial, oblique, transversal, or sagittal), distance from the nipple, and three orthogonal measurements. Breast ultrasound document must contain the following sections [5, 6, 10]:

