Density 0% fatty mammographic examples
Examples of 0% "fatty"
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To explain the above pictures, they are shown as examples. If you are able to obtain your own mammograms, and compare them to these examples, you may be able to figure out your own mammographic density. Although these examples show some pictures that look brighter than others, you should not look for the overall brightness. Instead, notice within each mammogram image, that there are many thin lines and streaks that are brighter than the surrounding tissue. These streaks are "more dense" (whiter), whereas the darker tissue arround them is fat.
On these 0% density mammograms, the thin white streaks are generally quite thin. But as mammographic density increases, more and more areas of fluffy white areas appear. The other pages showing more examples will illustrate this.
back to Mammographic density index. or calculate how your mammograms can affect your breast cancer risk. Last edited 24-May-2008 Copyright Steven B. Halls, MD
