Breast imaging
By: Daniel B. Kopans.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1114
Subjects: Breast -- Imaging; Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis; Breast Neoplasms -- diagnosis; Diagnostic Imaging; Mammography -- methods
Description: Illustrated atlas of imaging findings with a comprehensive text that covers all imaging modalities and addresses all aspects of breast imaging--including breast anatomy, histology, physiology, pathology, breast cancer staging, and preoperative localization of occult lesions. Includes state-of-the-art information on a new modality, digital breast tomosynthesis, as well as on digital mammography, MRI, ultrasound, and percutaneous breast biopsy. The book contains more than 2,100 images obtained with the latest technology, including many new mammograms and scans using other imaging modalities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Breast anatomy and basic histology, physiology, and pathology; title: A pathologist's overview of the pathology of breast disease / Joseph Rabban; title: Epidemiology, etiology, risk factors, and survival from breast cancer; title: Screening for breast cancer; title: Radiation risk; title: Staging breast cancer; title: Ductal carcinoma in situ and early-stage breast cancer: detection, diagnosis, and prognostic indicators; title: Mammography: equipment and basic physics; title: Quality assurance and quality control / Debra Deibel; title: Mammographic positioning; title: A systematic approach to breast imaging; title: Mammography and the normal breast; title: Interpreting the mammogram; title: Benign lesions; title: Probably benign findings appropriately managed with short-interval follow-up; title: Suspicious lesions and lesions with a high probability of malignancy; title: Breast ultrasound; title: The altered breast: pregnancy, lactation, abscess, post biopsy changes, mastectomy, radiation, and implants; title: The male breast; title: Magnetic resonance imaging of the breast / Carol A. Hulka and Daniel B. Kopans; title: Evaluating women with lumps, thickening, discharge or pain: imaging women with signs or symptoms that might indicate breast cancer; title: Image sequencing: problems and solutions in breast evaluation; title: Histological, pathological and imaging correlation; title: Interventional procedures in the breast; title: The breast imaging report: data management and the breast imaging audit; title: The medical-legal problem and breast imaging; title: Digital mammography; title: Digital breast tomosynthesis; title: Cytopathology.