Breast Types/Density's

Question 1

What are the 3 breast tissue types?

Answer 1

1. Fatty
2. Fibroglandular
3. Heterogenous

Question 2

How does fatty breast tissue how up on US?

Answer 2

Medium grey

Question 3

What type of breast tissue comprise’s the bulk of breast tissue?

Answer 3

Fatty breasts

Question 4

What is commonly found in the fibroglandular tissue of the breast?

Answer 4

Lesions
- common place for pathology

Question 5

Where is it common for shadowing to take place (not involving cancer)?

Answer 5

At the interface of fat lobules and parenchyma

Question 6

What does A dense breast mean?

Answer 6

The breasts are almost entirely fatty

Question 7

What does B dense breast mean?

Answer 7

There are scattered areas of fibroglandular density

Question 8

What does C dense breast mean?

Answer 8

The breasts are heterogeneously dense which can obscure small masses

Question 9

What does D dense breast mean?

Answer 9

The breast are extremely dense, which lowers the sensitivity of mammo

Question 10

When is US screening considered useful over mammo?

Answer 10

When scanning dense breasts
- 40% increase in breast cancer detection