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New Digital Mammography Unit
The
use of mammography has greatly enhanced the ability to detect breast
cancers at earlier stages and is considered one of the major
achievements in medicine.
Bates
County Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the addition of
full-field digital mammography to the Department of Imaging
Services.
Full-field
digital mammography (FFDM) shows great promise in the fight against
breast cancer. FFDM uses computers and specially designed digital
detectors to produce images that can be displayed on a
high-resolution computer monitor, that are transmitted and stored
just like other computer files.
From
a patient’s point of view, having a digital mammogram is very much
like having a conventional film-screen mammogram. Both film and
digital mammography use compression and x-rays to create clear
images of the inside of the breast.
Digital mammography is such a new
modality that it is not widely available at this time. BCMH is
committed to delivering quality care to our patients, and we have
added the LORAD Selenia digital mammography system to our women’s
health diagnostic services.
We look forward
to being able to provide you with this very valuable health care
service.
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