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Breast Diseases Imaging and Clinical Management /

It is challenging enough to be able to make a diagnosis in mammography, but the newer standards of care demand more than just providing a diagnosis. This book is an excellent resource to improve the understanding of breast diseases, recognize and manage problems encountered in breast imaging and cli...

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Main Author: Selvi, Radhakrishna. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Subjects:
Emergency medicine.
Critical care medicine.
Internal medicine.
Emergency Medicine.
Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.
Internal Medicine.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2077-0
Table of Contents:
  • Section – I Introduction The normal breast
  • Overview of screening for breast cancer. Section – II Imaging modalities
  •  Mammography – Equipment and technology
  • Mammographic positioning
  • Step by step approach to read a mammogram
  • Analysis of mass lesions and architectural distortion
  • Approach to asymmetry
  • Calcifications
  • BI-RADS lexicon for mammography
  • Understanding the physics of breast Ultrasound
  • Equipment settings and examination technique
  • Sonographic criteria to assess breast lesions
  • Correlating mammography and breast ultrasound
  • Axillary Ultrasound
  • BI-RADS lexicon for breast ultrasound
  • Breast MR Imaging. Section – III Benign Breast Disorders
  • Fibrocystic change- Proliferative Change
  • Breast cysts
  • Fibroadenoma
  • Phyllodes
  • Breast infections
  • Nipple discharge. Section – IV Interventional Procedures
  • Principles and Practice of image guided interventional procedures Section – V Pathological Considerations
  • Handling of surgical specimens
  • Conventional prognostic markers
  • Understanding ER and PR and Her2
  • Overview of Immunohistochemistry in breast lesions
  • Molecular classification of breast cancer Section – VI Breast Cancer
  • Hereditary breast cancer
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ
  • Invasive breast cancer –NOS
  • Invasive lobular carcinoma
  • Medullary carcinoma
  • Mucinous Carcinoma
  • Tubular Carcinoma
  • Invasive papillary Carcinoma
  • Invasive micropapillary Carcinoma
  • Metaplastic carcinoma
  • Staging of breast cancer
  • Surgical management of breast cancer
  • Chemotherapy
  • Hormone therapy
  • Targeted therapies
  • Imaging of the treated breast.

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