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33 Cards in this Set
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Who published the first article on mammography in 1930? |
Stafford Warren, MD |
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In the ____’s, the father of mammography, ____ MD, began teaching his mammographic technique. |
1960’s, Robert Egan |
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From mammography’s advent in 1924 until the early 1980’s, mammograms were only done on what kind of patients? |
Symptomatic patients who were referred to radiologists before surgery |
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Who lauded the efforts of the ACR in his 1971 paper? |
Franklin Alcorn |
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During the 1970’s, who pioneered a three country mammography screening trial of asymptomatic women? |
Dr Lazlo Tabar and his colleagues in Sweden |
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Who were the moderators for a 1978 medical conference that featured papers and reports on early studies to detect breast disease in asymptomatic patients? |
Dr Philip Strax and Dr Ferris Hall |
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Who were the doctors that pioneered magnification? |
Dr Logan-Young and Dr Edward Sickles |
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Who published the 1977 book “Breast Carcinoma: The Radiologist’s Expanded Role”? |
Dr Wende Westinghouse Logan-Young |
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Who produced his initial breast images in 1924 using the only xray machine in his facility? |
Doctor Warren |
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Who created xeroradiography? |
John Wolfe, MD |
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What kind of plates are used to capture the latent image in xeroradiography? |
Selenium |
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What year did xeroradiography become commercially available? |
1971 |
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Who developed the first dedicated mammography machine in France along with the CGR company? |
Charles Gros, MD |
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The dedicated mammmography unit introduced in 1969 had what kind of target? |
Molybdenum |
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What type of imaging surpassed xeroradiography in 1972? |
Screen film (analog) |
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What are the 3 instances in which the nipple must be in profile? |
Spontaneous unilateral nipple discharge, male mammograms, and to determine the ROI for a procedure |
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Xeroradiography compensated for the nonvisualization of posterolateral breast tissue on the lateral view by including it on what view? |
Laterally exaggerated CC view |
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Scandinavian mammographers in the mid-1970s created what view? |
Oblique |
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What percentage of the skin line is visualized in tangent on a mammogram? |
2% |
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Why is it necessary to image the breast with high contrast methods? |
To detect smaller lesions hiding within the glandular tissue |
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How many shades of grade do digital systems record and display? |
16,000 |
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How many shades of gray do analog systems capture? |
100 |
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What percentage of primary breast cancers have mammographically detectable calcifications? |
30-50% |
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Screening mammograms account for approximately what percentage of all mammograms done in the US? |
80% |
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Approximately what percentage of breast cancer occurs in women with none of the known risk factors? |
75% |
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What percentage of breast cancers occur in women below the age of 50? |
25% |
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If the average malignancy is detected 2 to 4 years before it becomes palpable, what is the cure rate? |
95% |
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By the time a non-palpable .5 cm lesion increases in size to a palpable 1 cm, its mass has increased how many times? |
8 |
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What percentage of invasive cancers are invasive ductal carcinoma? |
73% |
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What percentage of invasive cancers are invasive lobular carcinoma? |
9% |
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What percentage of in situ cancers are DCIS? |
85% |
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What percentage of in situ cancers are lobular carcinoma in situ? |
11.5% |
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What percentage of women who died of breast cancer are diagnosed in their 40s? |
25% |
