Elements Of Breast Imaging Basics Quiz

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1. Breast cancer mortality is second only to that of which one of the following:

Cervical

Colon

Lung

Hepatoma


2. Risk factors for female breast cancer include

Family history

Early onset menarche and late onset menopause

BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes

All of the above


3. Pagets disease accounts for _____% of all breast cancers.

3%

2%

11%

1%


4. Breast compression during mammography is necessary because

It helps to lower radiation dose

It immobilizes the breast and reduces motion blur

Technologists prefer to compress

Both a & b


5. A breast mass visualized on mammography is defined as a

Dense space occupying lesion seen on one view and has complex outer borders.

Disruption of normal random pattern of fine linear or curvilinear radio-opaque structures seen in the breast.

Dense space occupying lesion seen on two different projections with convex outer borders and is usually denser in the centre than periphery.




6. Most of the breast cancers detected by ultrasound are located in the

pre-mammary fascia

subcutaneous fat

pectoralis muscle

mammary zone


7. Characteristics of a benign breast nodule on ultrasound include:

Posterior acoustic shadowing

Taller than wider orientation

Spiculated margins

Circumscribed margins with wider than taller orientation


8. Architectural distortion on a mammogram is always associated with malignancy.

True

False


9. What type of calcifications are fibroadenomas associated with?

Fine linear microcalcifications

Pleomorphic microcalcifications

Coarse popcorn calcifications

Punctate microcalcifications


10. Medullary, Mucinous and Tubular carcinoma are circumscribed tumors associated with a relatively favorable prognosis.

True

False