2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Full Field Digital, System, X-Ray, Mammographic

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §892.1715 (Radiology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Full Field Digital LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#796 of 1000 · 659 reports · 2008–2026

  • BOOK 659 reports
  • RANK #796 of 1000
  • DEATH 5 death-typed
  • INJ 53 injury-typed
  • MALF 488 malfunction
  • SPAN 2008–2026
  • PEAK 2018: 144
  • PHOTO Guide

Nearest event-volume peer: Guide, Wire, Catheter, Neurovasculature (2 report gap)

Full Field Digital, System, X-Ray, Mammographic sits #796 of 1000 among tracked device types with 659 MAUDE reports spanning 2008–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm

Full Field Digital carries 8.0% INJURY-coded reports, 22.3pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.8% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
  • INJ 8.0% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-22.3 pp)
  • MALF 74.1% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+9.2 pp)

Lead product-problem code Unintended System Motion is 34% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer HOLOGIC, INC accounts for 53% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 48% of location-tagged rows .

Full Field Digital in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Full Field Digital, System, X-Ray, Mammographic carries 659 MAUDE reports, ranked #796 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 488 (74.1%)
No answer provided 96 (14.6%)
Injury 53 (8.0%)
Other 16 (2.4%)
Death 5 (0.8%)
1 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

558 (84.4%)
Other 81 (12.3%)
Required Intervention 9 (1.4%)
Hospitalization 6 (0.9%)
D 4 (0.6%)
R 1 (0.2%)
Death 1 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.2%)

Top Product Problems

Unintended System Motion 214
Device Operational Issue 112
Device Displays Incorrect Message 55
Poor Quality Image 38
Unintended Movement 38
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 36
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 19
Break 19
Use of Device Problem 18
Insufficient Device Problem Information 12
Mechanical Problem 10
Component Falling 8
Device Stops Intermittently 8
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 8
Detachment of Device or Device Component 6
Material Fragmentation 6
Detachment Of Device Component 5
Noise, Audible 5
Unintended Collision 5
Crack 4

Yearly Trend

08
2008: 4
09
2009: 3
10
2010: 2
11
2011: 10
12
2012: 6
13
2013: 11
14
2014: 7
15
2015: 5
16
2016: 19
17
2017: 115
18
2018: 144
19
2019: 80
20
2020: 49
21
2021: 25
22
2022: 36
23
2023: 29
24
2024: 33
25
2025: 40
26
2026: 41

Reports in 2025 (40) held close to the prior two-year average of 31.

Related Entities for Full Field Digital, System, X-Ray, Mammographic

Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

I 319 (48.4%)
219 (33.2%)
NO INFORMATION 106 (16.1%)
HOSPITAL 10 (1.5%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 4 (0.6%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 1 (0.2%)

Compare HOLOGIC, INC vs HOLOGIC, INC. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Full Field Digital: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (659 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (5 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Full Field Digital are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Full Field Digital; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.