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Mammography Regulation and Reimbursement Report (Single Article)

Too much compression ruptures implant
November 2002

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California’s Claude Goode tells a painful tale:One of Goode’s patients had a breast implant, and during her mammogram, the implant ruptured. “The woman was literally screaming at the technologist to release her,” Goode recalls. “But she would not release the compression. Evidently, the tech applied significant compression, though the machine was operating within normal regulatory standards. The patient in Goode’s horror story received her implants for cosmetic purposes.“This patient was left to suffer,” Goode says, “and there were n

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