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Alta Bates Summit Breast Imaging Services

If you discover a lump in your breast, contact your doctor immediately—but it's important to keep in mind most breast problems aren't cancer. Breast imaging can help you get the information you need.

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Featured Services

  • 3D Mammography and Imaging
  • Breast MRI
  • Breast Ultrasound
  • Image-Guided Breast Biopsy

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Breast Imaging Services within the Sutter Health network

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    State-of-the-Art Breast Imaging

    Depending on your symptoms, your family history and the density of your breasts, breast imaging experts across the Sutter Health network can use a combination of imaging technologies to screen for and diagnose breast abnormalities. Mammography is the foundation of breast cancer screening, but we offer many additional imaging technologies to assess breast health. Here are some of the services we provide:

    Screening and Diagnostic Mammography

    During a mammogram, pictures are taken of each breast using a machine that compresses your breast tissue and emits low-dose radiation. Most Sutter imaging centers use digital mammography machines for an even lower-dose procedure that allows radiologists a better view of the entire breast to the chest wall. If you feel a lump, have nipple discharge or a positive screening mammogram, a more focused mammogram is performed.

    Woman receiving annual breast exam

    3D Mammography

    Also known as digital breast tomosynthesis, this new breast imaging technology acquires multiple images of the compressed breast and reconstructs them in three dimensions. Breast tomosynthesis provides the radiologist with more detailed information and is particularly helpful in women with dense breasts.

    Contrast Enhanced Mammography

    Some Sutter Health locations offer contrast enhanced mammography, a technology that highlights and helps to detect areas in the breast where tissue has changed or lesions may be present. Check if your provider offers this service.

    Breast MRI

    Lying face down on the MRI table, you will be advanced into a donut-shaped spinning gantry that contains a large super-conducting magnet. Better suited to the imaging of tissue, the test may be used to evaluate a lump that is not seen on a mammogram, screen high-risk women or check for possible breast implant rupture.

    Breast Ultrasound

    Ultrasound gel and a wand called a transducer are placed directly on the skin to generate—and collect—sound waves, producing images of the structures inside the breast. Ultrasounds may be used for women with dense breasts or a family history of breast cancer, those whose lump cannot be seen on a mammogram, or on pregnant women to avoid the use of radiation. It also can distinguish between cysts and tumors. Some Sutter Health affiliate locations offer Automated Breast Ultrasound, which scans both breasts and adjacent structures. The automated exam collects up to 5,000 images that the radiologist can view in a motion-picture format. In some cases, an ultrasound-guided breast biopsy is performed.

    Digital Stereotactic Breast Biopsy

    This option is less invasive than a surgical biopsy. During the procedure, digital mammography technology focuses on breast tissue that has changed, which facilitates tissue removal for examination.

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    If you receive a breast cancer diagnosis, a cancer nurse navigator will guide you every step of the way, from treatment options to survivorship.

    Doctors at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center

    The following doctors are part of the Sutter Health network. Learn about the doctors on this site.
    Yehia M. ElGuindy, M.D.

    Yehia M. ElGuindy, M.D.

    • Radiology

    Eric M. Tao, M.D.

    Eric M. Tao, M.D.

    • Radiology

    Patrick R. Ryan, M.D.

    Patrick R. Ryan, M.D.

    • Radiology

    Keyvan J. Nouri, M.D.

    Keyvan J. Nouri, M.D.

    • Radiology

    Susan H. Cha, M.D.

    Susan H. Cha, M.D.

    • Radiology

    David K. Tso, M.D.

    David K. Tso, M.D.

    • Radiology

    Wilson B. Chwang, M.D.

    Wilson B. Chwang, M.D.

    • Radiology

    Stephen M. Hesseltine, M.D.

    Stephen M. Hesseltine, M.D.

    • Radiology

    Sunit P. Harris, M.D.

    Sunit P. Harris, M.D.

    • Radiology

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