[The clinical value of contrast-less mammography in endocrine diseases]

The authors analyze the X-ray picture of the changes occurring in the mammary glands in women with various endocrine diseases and in men with gynecomastia. Contrastless mammagraphy was carried out in 189 persons. In studying the mammagrams in patients with endocrine diseases assessment was made of the state of the subcutaneous-adipose cellular tissue, total dimensions of the organ. The majority of the endocrine diseases were accompanied at the initial stages of their development by changes in the endocrine gland, this serving as a direct indication for the use of contrastless roentgenography for the purpose of earlier and proper choice of the therapeutic method.