0 an X-ray photograph of the breasts
1 an X-ray photograph of a woman’s breasts, used to find signs of disease
Effect of false-positive mammograms on interval breast cancer screening in a health maintenance organization.
Although the risks of radiation exposure are negligible, screening mammograms can generate false-negative and false-positive results.
Subjects were matched by age at biopsy, and mammograms were taken at the time of biopsy.
Presently there are about 2,000 single words and 2,500 multi-word phrases in the lexicon, which mainly covers chest x-rays and mammograms.
Sometimes repeat mammograms and tangential views are all that is required for clarification.
However, many early detection mammograms are performed as diagnostic mammography, without assurance of quality.
The case was that of a 77-year-old woman with a 2 cm palpable mass, which appeared malignant on mammogram.
In contrast, the fat within the breast is more radiolucent and much darker in appearance on the mammogram.
