Mammo 1: History Flashcards
(22 cards)
Legend has it that the concept of mammography was first proposed in ____ when a group of male radiologists in ____ assembled around a viewbox “admiring” the chest x-ray of a buxom woman
1924
Rochester, NY
______, published the first article on
mammography in ____.
Stafford Warren, MD
1930
It was not until the ____ that the “father of mammography,” _____, then at ____,
began teaching his mammographic technique
1960s
Robert Egan, MD,
M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston
Doctor Warren produced his initial breast images in ___ using the only x-ray machine in his facility
1924
During the early 1960s, the Haloid Corporation, with their principal investigator, ______, began experi- menting with a new recording system that eventually would become known as _____
John Wolfe, MD , xeroradiography
Xeroradiography became commercially available in
1971
______, developed the first dedicated mammography unit in France in the mid-___.
Charles Gros, MD ,1960’s
when clumped together can mimic microcalcifications
Aluminum and zinc
described the use of double-emulsion film and intensifying screens, a moving grid, a 60-kVp, 70-mA, 2.5-second exposure, and a 25-inch
source-image detector distance.
Stafford Warren
Articles detailing radiography of mastectomy specimens were published before ____
1930
The heart of the new unit, the_____ , evolved from technology developed for quality control efforts in automobile and truck tire production.
molybdenum target tube
Xeroradiography flourished in the United States during the___. By the mid-to-late ____, this method of imaging the breast was all but extinct.
1970’s
1980s
was a basic protocol and cardinal rule of xeroradiography
“The nipple must always be imaged in profile”
• By the mid- ____, _____ mammographers reported the
advantages of a new position, the oblique view
1970s
Scandinavian
Mammographers used _____ as a positioning aid in xeroradiography to ensure the ribs were included on the image
sponges
The use of deodorants and powders
that contain _____ particles adversely affected a xeromammogram, but should not interfere with the interpretation of an analog or digital mammogram.
aluminum, calcium, and
zinc
Because the ribs and lung field were included on a xeromammogram, which used considerably less compression than analog or digital imaging, _____.
respiration had to be suspended
The first written description of breast cancer was on ____
ancient Egyptian papyrus
described the cellular nature of breast cancer
Müller
For patients with metastatic lesions, the median time of survival is ___
2 years
When looking for cancer in the typical young woman’s more glandular breast, we are looking for a ____.
white dot on a white background
In the typical postmenopausal, adipose-replaced breast, we are looking for a ___
white dot on a dark background
