If you are women and still young, healthy, do not have any breast complaints, I’m sure you never think about Mammogram or Mammography. I can understand about it, but Mammogram is a breast screening that has many benefits and good step for preventing any disease related to your breast health. Although this test is useful but should be done carefully because it uses x-ray radiation and some women will feel pain and uncomfortable during examination because of breast pressing by the plate of the mammogram equipment.

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As a mother who has daughters around 10 - 20 years should check them for ultrasound or scanning. Young girls or teenagers are usually not respect with their health. School activities, extracurricular task and friendship have made them unaware about their health complaints. We never know what they did, drank and consumed everyday if they stay outside of home.

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MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is an advanced diagnostic machine to check and evaluate any disease, abnormality and anatomy of the human body by transmitting the use of a huge magnet, radio frequencies and magnetic resonance and generating the signal which is seen by the receiver and later to be sent to the computer for further process. MRI with speed of rotating hydrogen atom of water molecules inside enables to make images and distinguishes of any different parts of the body and make it feasible to the computer screen.

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Hi.. mother or maybe for all women especially who have age more than 40 years. In this post I would like to explain how to detect Breast Cancer. If you know it in early stage, I’m sure your life is saved without any negative impacts. Breast Cancer is one of the most dangerous disease in the world. Until now, all medical knowledge doesn’t know the specific causes of Breast Cancer.

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I’m sure that most of you rarely hear about what BNO-IVP is. This examination is done if you have symptom of disease related with your urinary tract. BNO-IVP (Blass Nier Oversich - Intra Venous Pyelogram) is one of the x-ray test which provide you more detailed information about structure and function on both kidneys, ureters and urinary bladder.

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Mother who visit the Hospital and have requisition letter from her Doctor to do Doppler Ultrasound. She will ask me “What is Doppler Ultrasound?”.

Some of them are very familiar with ultrasound test due to pregnancy ultrasound, but others are also still confuse what Doppler ultrasound for. Ultrasound in term is the sound waves of frequencies exceeding the range of human hearing. Doppler it self is a little bit innovations in clinical practice. The power of Doppler Ultrasound is better agents for anatomy, measurement of tissue perfusion and precise delivery mechanism of soft tissue in color images.

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To uphold an accurate diagnosis, Doctor/Specialist usually send the patient for doing ultrasound especially Abdominal ultrasound. If the the Operator of Ultrasonography has 3 criterias, I’m sure that the accuracy of diagnosis is 99%.

Before sending you to ultrasound, you must be fasting about 6 hours before examination. No food but can be plain water. It purposes to make your gall bladder size is enlarged, so we can see the problem inside easily. Your urinary bladder should be full of water. Any abnormality is only seen if the urinary bladder is full. To make it smoothly, patient is recommended to drink the water 30 minutes in advance, but keep holding it not to urinate until examination done.

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Many of my patients asked me about the normal chest x-ray criteria if they take an x-ray. I want to share about this to all mothers in the world, so if they have relative, children or her husband have x-ray photo of the lung know about the abnormality indications.

You can see the part names of the Chest first and show you the normal limit signs. The normal criteria, you can stick from Chest x-ray examination. In this moment I just explain the general descriptions as follows :

1. Lung

Lung contains of 2 lobes, right and left regions. They are usually a black sign in normal condition. “Why is it a black sign?” -> Yes, because they have a lot of air inside. If your lung apex has a white sign, it indicates like bronchovascular markings are coarse or increased that is a sign of Tuberculosis or Specific Process. It can be old process of active pulmonary disease depending on the texture. There is a white sign on the bronchilar or hilar regions, it’s called Bronchitis. Bronchopneumonia can be seen if the coarse on the lower area of the chest. Chest mass is also can be noticed if the white sign is compact, sharp border, round shape with specific contour.

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