lymphoscintigraphy
A scan that follows a trace of radioactive material through lymph channels to map where fluid from a given area drains.
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83 matchesmammography
No screening test is purely beneficial, and mammography programs are judged on the balance between cancers found early and abnormalities that never needed finding.
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A surgical procedure used to treat skin cancer.
Read definitionpercutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
A procedure to x-ray the hepatic and common bile ducts.
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A procedure in which a small amount of radioactive glucose (sugar) is injected into a vein, and a scanner is used to make detailed, computerized pictures of areas inside the body where the glucose…
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A procedure that produces pictures (scans) of structures inside the body, including areas where there are cancer cells.
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A type of breast imaging test that is used to detect cancer cells in the breasts of some women who have had abnormal mammograms, or who have dense breast tissue.
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A type of radionuclide scan used to find carcinoid and other types of tumors.
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In medicine, a procedure in which a heat-sensing infrared camera is used to record the surface heat produced by different parts of the body.
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Tomography is the general technique of producing cross sectional images of the body's interior, applied across several different imaging technologies.
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A picture of the body recorded on paper rather than on film.
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A type of x-ray in which a picture of the body is recorded on paper rather than on film.
Read definitionabdominal x-ray
A quick plain film of the belly that is read mainly from the pattern of gas rather than from the organs themselves.
Read definitionangiogram
The picture shows the space inside a vessel rather than its wall, so it maps the channel that blood actually has left to travel through.
Read definitionbone scan
An imaging test that maps repair activity across the whole skeleton in one pass, often long before an x-ray shows anything.
Read definitionbreast density
A description of what a mammogram shows rather than of how a breast feels, and it cannot be judged by touch.
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The older name survives in speech, though modern scanners sweep in a spiral and the axial part of it no longer describes them.
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The scan can find a growth but cannot remove or sample one, so anything suspicious still ends in a scope procedure.
Read definitionelectrocardiogram
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A recording of the heart’s electrical activity from electrodes on the skin.
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An ultrasound probe carried down the gullet on a scope, close enough to image organs the skin hides.
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