MammoPad a boon to patient comfort, federal compliance
All the buzz over digital advances revolutionizing mammography has been
usurped, for the moment anyway, by an adhesive pad. A soft, single-use radiolucent
cushion manufactured by BioLucent could improve compliance with mammography
guidelines by making women more comfortable during the examination, according
to the cushion's inventor, Gail Lebovic, MD, a breast surgeon at the
Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, CA.
The Mammography Quality Standards Act mandates patient satisfaction-both
dur
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