Prelim Flashcards
Diagnostic imaging of the
breasts
••Use to screen early detection of
Breast Cancer
Mammography
Why perform mammo?
Early detection of breast cancer
Lowers number of fatalities
Mammography is an imaging of breast using a in order to____recognize any abnormalities of breast with dedicated mammography
unit.
compression
7 RISK FACTORS FOR BREAST CANCER
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AGE
FAMILY HISTORY
BREAST ARCHITECTURE
MENARCHE
MENOPAUSAL
Use of Estrogen
Late age at birth of first child or never had children
3 step to perform routine breast exam
- Look breast in mirror with arms by sides and then when arms raised.
- Feel breast while lying down
- Feel breast while standing up
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Nipple Discharge
Texture change
Visible Lump
Dimpled or depressed
Nipple Turning
Lymph Discharged
2 types of Mammo
Diagnostic
Screening
Performed to patients with symptoms or elevated
risk factors.
Cancer patients
Diagnostic Mammography
Asymptomatic patients
Annual mammogram screening
Screening Mammography
- a small projection of skin containing outlets for 15-20 lactiferous ducts arranged cylindrically around the tip.
NIPPLE
- the structures which carry milk toward the nipple.
LACTIFEROUS DUCT
- the superficial layer that
provides shape to the breast which come
in contact with the baby when
breastfeeding.
SKIN
- also known as the
thoracic wall. It is the boundary that
serves as protection on internal
organs inside the thoracic cavity
CHEST WALL
- a group of alveoli, the milk secreting cells in the breast
LOBULES
- any of the muscles that connect the front walls
of the chest with the bones of the upper arm and shoulder.
PECTORALIS MUSCLE