Breast radiography using the oblique projection.
For 3,058 consecutive women who underwent film-screen mammography, oblique, mediolateral, and cephalocaudal images were obtained. Eighty neoplasms were identified. The oblique view disclosed all but one of the cancers; for six patients, it was the only projection that depicted a lesion in the upper-outer quadrant of the breast. Therefore, a two-view mammographic examination should consist of an oblique and cephalocaudal projection.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged