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Mammography

This mammogram shows a moderately dense breast with both fatty and fibroglandular tissues. Breast cancer may present as calcification, which is the accumulation of calcium salts in breast tissue. The mammogram is an example of a fatty-glandular breast that contains both fat and glandular tissues.

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Mammography

This mammogram shows a moderately dense breast with both fatty and fibroglandular tissues. Breast cancer may present as calcification, which is the accumulation of calcium salts in breast tissue. The mammogram is an example of a fatty-glandular breast that contains both fat and glandular tissues.

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Mammography

Sunday, May 21, 2017 4:43 PM

Obtained from Mini-Mias dataset: mdb050


Pectoralis major muscle

Fibroglandular-tissues

Fatty tissues

The mammogram above is an example of fatty-glandular breast (moderately dense/fatty breast)

Breast cancer can often be characterized by:


Calcification (accumulation of calcium salts in body tissue)

mdb252

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