Breast Imaging: Mammography, Ultrasound (Sonography), Nuclear Medicine, MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

Mammography, Ultrasound, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and CAT scan

1. Sally Jobe Breast Network,
   • Mammography
   • Ultrasound
   • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
   • Digital mammography
   • Scintimammography (Sestamibi) nuclear medicine
2. Harvard University's Brigham and Women's Hospital
   • What exactly is a mammogram?
   • Should I get a mammogram?
   • What Can I Do to Improve the Quality of my Mammogram?
   • What Will my Results Mean?
   • Dispelling Myths about Mammography
3. MEDLINEplus mammography links, a service of the National Library of Medicine
• Historical Perspective
• When is mammography needed?
• What are the guidelines for Screening?
• How Mammography Works
• What is mammography like?
4. Mammography pictures
• Normal mammogram
• Weight change
• Pregnancy and breast feeding
• Estrogen replacement after menopause
• Medical problems
• Breast infection
• Blocked lymph channels
• Ductal carcinoma in situ (early cancer which has not yet started spreading:
• Ductal carcinoma-in-situ
• Ductal carcinoma in situ
• Breast cancer
• Ductal breast cancer
• Lobular breast cancer
5. Breast ultrasound:
• Normal breast ultrasound
• Ultrasound breast infection
• Ultrasound breast cancer
• CAT scan inflammatory breast cancer

MRI

1. University of California San Francisco describes their breast MRI program:
1. What is Breast MRI?
2. What is MRI?
3. Benefits
4. Risks
5. Who is a candidate?
6. What can MRI tell?
7. The Exam
8. Contrast Agent
9. Cost
10. Implants
11. Pictures
12. What's on the horizon?
2. Harvard University Brigham and Women's Hospital breast MRI

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