physical assessment: breast
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- The reservoir for storing milk in the breast are:
- lactiferous sinus
- The most common site of breast tumors is:
- upper outer quadrant
- When teaching the breast self-exam, you would inform the woman that the best time to conduct breast self-examination is:
- on the 4-7 day of the cycle
- How often should women have a clinical breast examination:
- every year
- The examiner is going to inspect the breasts for retraction. The best position for this part of the exam is:
- sitting with hands pushing onto hips
- A bimanual technique may be preferred approachfor a woman:
- with pendulous breasts
- During the exmination of a 70 year old man, you note gynecomastia. You would:
- review the medication for drugs that have gynecomastia as side effects
- during a breast examination, you detect a mass. What description is most consistent with cancer rather than benign breast disease?
- irregular, poorly defined, fixed
- During the examination of the breasts of a pregnant woman, you would expect to find:
- a blue vascular pattern over both breasts
- Breast asymmetry should always be investigated. T/F
- False: it may be normal
- Gynemastia is:
- enlargement of the male breast
- Which is the first physical change associated with puberty in girls?
- breast bud development