Mammograph

Mammography is the basic method of examination for women over 40. It is performed on special X-ray machines (mammographs) using soft X-rays.

Each breast is pictured standing up from two different angles and is slightly compressed between the pad and the compression plate. It may seem to you A little uncomfortable, but it shouldn't be painful. Squeezing the breast hard enough is necessary for achieving a quality image and reduce the radiation dose.

The resulting mammographic images are Immediately sent to a doctor for evaluation. If the image is clear enough and there are no suspicious changes, your examination is complete.
Sometimes it happens that the doctor can't only to determine from a mammogram that you're healthy. In this case, you will be given an additional ultrasound or have special images taken (called projections).

When you arrive for your appointment. select a serial number and wait for your number to appear on the screen. You can enjoy a snack from the vending machine or read the daily newspapers while you wait.

When your number is displayed on the screen, the move to receptionand give it to the nurse at the front desk referral form, insurance card and number from the call system.
You will be checked in at the reception and, depending on the request on the application form, we will send you for a mammogram or ultrasound examination.

An essential part of any examination is completing a personal historywhich you can conveniently enter with us to the tablet. In case of any doubts, there is nothing easier than to ask the nurse at the reception, who will always will be happy to advise.

If you're coming in for a mammogram, you sit down to the mammography waiting room and you'll take with you documentationwhich you will receive at the reception.

In the mammography waiting room, you sit down and wait for your number to be calledthat you chose when you arrived.

You enter the door above which your number is displayed. You will find a cubicle don't forget to lock up.

In the cabin, you you're gonna put it down to your midriff (including bra) and you waitwhen the radiology assistant calls you.

During the examination itself is Very It is important to work with the radiology assistant because each breast is x-rayed twice in a different position.

Radiology assistant Your breast lays on the mat the mammogram to the ideal position and clamps it so that the breast is in the unchanged position. This moment of examination may be uncomfortable, but should not be painful.

Compression of the breast (compression) it is necessary to perform a quality examination. The discomfort of pressure must be endured, without it the image will not be of good quality.

After the mammogram, you will get dressed and sit in the waiting room to wait for the results. Read more the examination and the result takes approximately 30 minutes. While you wait for your result, the doctors carefully examine and describe your images.

You will receive the result of the examination in the results room, which you can enter by dialling your number.

You get the result in your hand. It is your responsibility to take it to your doctor. Remember that he or she is also waiting impatiently to hear how your examination went. This is the end of the examination for you.

In some cases, your mammogram may need to be supplemented with an ultrasound. This is a standard procedure. Continue with your documentation down the corridor to the ultrasound waiting room.