An image formation apparatus comprising: an image exposure portion that
forms a latent image by optically exposing a recording medium based on
entered image data; a thermal development portion that visualizes the
latent image by heating the recording medium exposed by the image
exposure portion; a data identification portion that reads ID information
about image data obtained by mammography; and a data-processing portion
that: when the data identification portion has determined that a set of
breast image data about the same patient have been entered successively,
rotates through 180.degree. (i) images represented by even-numbered input
ones of the set of breast image data or (ii) images represented by
odd-numbered input ones of the set of breast image data; and then outputs
the image data to the image exposure portion.