New 3-D mammographies available at Lutheran

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Photo courtesy of Lutheran Medical Center.

The new acquisition was celebrated by Councilmembers Domenic Recchia, Sara González and Vincent Gentile, and Speaker Christine Quinn (second from left), alongside Dr. Alan Sickles, coordinator of Lutheran’s Breast Surgery Program; Dr. Jayanth Rao, chair of the Radiology Department; Emma Graeber Porter, chair of the Board of Trustees; and Claudia Caine, hospital director and COO.

Mammograms for Brooklyn women just got even more accurate withthe addition of a new 3-D digital mammography machine at LutheranMedical Center on 55th Street in southwest Brooklyn. Lutheran isthe first health care system in Brooklyn to offer this type oftechnology to patients.

The technology is called breast tomosynthesis and it enablesradiologists to identify and analyze individual breast structureswithout getting confused by overlapping tissues.

The new equipment arrived late this summer after being purchasedfrom a company called Hologic, with funds made available with helpfrom the City Council.

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