[The technical support of mammography].

The paper deals with the basic elements of up-to-date hardware for mammography, which determine the quality of X-ray diagnosis of breast diseases. With small-dose dosages, highly-informative images can be obtained by both perfect equipment and image visualization means, including intensifying screens and films, cassettes that measure respective exposures, absorbed doses and check up the conclusions made while analyzing clinical cases. Recommendations are given for choosing a screen-film system and cassettes of various firms and working conditions of photo laboratories in mammographic rooms by taking into account the specific features of manual and automatic film development.

[Ultrasound and radiologic diagnosis of breast nodules in young women].

Mammography as a priority method of diagnosis of breast nodules in young women is of low efficacy as a result of a dense background of the breast as distinct from echography permitting the detection of abnormal lesion against this background. Altogether 126 patients with clinical manifestations of breast nodules were investigated. Apparatus methods used for investigation of 38 of them, revealed but manifestations of fibrocystic mastopathy.

[Ultrasonographic and radiographic diagnosis of breast nodules in young women].

Mammography as a priority method of diagnosis of breast nodules in young women is of low efficacy as a result of a dense background of the breast as distinct from echography permitting the detection of abnormal lesion against this background. Altogether 126 patients with clinical manifestations of breast nodules were investigated. Apparatus methods used for investigation of 38 of them, revealed but manifestations of fibrocystic mastopathy.

[Macroaggregated calcifications in cancer of the breast].

Breast cancer is characterized by the presence of multiple aggregated microcalcinates. However, the authors managed to detect 6 cases of breast cancer with macroaggregate calcifications, of which 3 were not adequately imaged on mammograms. Morphological investigations in all cases have shown that macroaggregate calcifications that are typical of benign lesions, are also detectable in breast cancer.