What does mammography mean?

Mammography is a common method to diagnose breast diseases.

Low-dose mammography can clearly show all layers of breast tissue and various lesions. It is sensitive to common breast diseases, such as breast hyperplasia, breast tumor, microcalcification and calcification that is difficult to be found by color Doppler ultrasound.

At present, it is the main means of breast cancer screening, especially early breast cancer, which is invisible in clinic and characterized by microcalcification. The mammography system has the characteristics of clear imaging, convenient operation and low radiation. It is recommended that women over 40 years old have a mammogram of 1 every12 years.

The full name of mammography is mammography, which is the simplest, most reliable and non-invasive method to diagnose breast diseases at present. Relatively painless, simple, high resolution and repeatable. The preserved image can be compared before and after, and it has been used as a routine examination at present.

Its characteristic is that it can detect breast masses that doctors can't touch. Mammary molybdenum target has many advantages. First of all, it can be used as a relatively non-invasive examination method to observe the effects of various physiological periods on breast structure, such as menstrual cycle and endocrine changes, and can reliably diagnose benign lesions and malignant tumors of breast cancer.

According to the readings of X-ray films, some precancerous lesions can be found. Pathological changes can be followed up after radiotherapy and chemotherapy to observe the curative effect.