After your Enhanced Mammography appointment
Following an Enhanced Mammogram, our staff will provide you with a patient care sheet. You will be asked to stay for 15minutes in our waiting room. This is in order to make sure you are ok before we can let you go.Once you have left our clinic, you may resume your activities as normal – […]
How to prepare for your Enhanced Mammography appointment?
Prior to you Enhanced Mammogram appointment we urge you to please eat and drink as you would do normally. For any mammogram examination, you will be asked to undress to the waist. In order to make it easier for you, we recommend you to either wear a skirt or a trouser instead of a dress. […]
Magseed clip insertion
What is Magseed? Magseed is a sterile, surgical grade steel clip that is about the size of a grain of rice. It is inserted prior to surgery next to the breast cancer to help guide surgeons during a breast lumpectomy. How is a Magseed placed in my breast? The Magseed is placed with the help […]
What is ultrasound?
Ultrasound is a diagnostic technique that uses high frequency sound waves to produce pictures of internal tissues and organs. During this procedure, a special gel is spread onto the area to be examined, then a transducer (small hand-held probe which emits sound waves) is passed over the area. The echoes it picks up are converted […]
What is X-Ray?
This is the most common type of x-ray investigation. X-Ray is a form of invisible, short wavelength, electromagnetic energy. Low doses can be passed through tissues to produce images of bones, organs and internal tissues. At 108 X-Ray and Imaging these images are processed through a CR reader, which converts them into a digital image. Most commonly x-rays […]