Making the Diagnosis by Harvey: A Practical Guide to Breast Imaging

Detect and identify breast lesions at the earliest possible stage with Making the Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Breast Imaging. Dr. Jennifer Harvey and Dr. David E. March utilize a practical, case-based approach to help you select and make optimal use of today’s imaging options.

Key Features:

• Learn the right questions to ask when viewing a mammogram, MRI or ultrasound.
• Zero in on the key information you need to know with highly templated, concise chapters followed by case studies that reinforce and expand your knowledge.
• Distinguish normal variants and lookalike lesions from cancer thanks to expert, highly visual guidance on all relevant imaging modalities.
• Interpret the findings you’re likely to see in practice with the aid of high-quality images, enhanced with arrows and labels to help you recognize and identify suspicious lesions.
• Access the entire text and images online at www.expertconsult.com.

Περιεχόμενα:

Section I: Approach and Technique

1. The First Question, 2. Physics Facts that WILL Improve Your Images, 3. Screening Mammography 101 and Beyond, 4. The Recalled Patient: Now What?

Section II: Findings on Mammography

5. Breast Anatomy and Physiology: Recognizing Normal Changes, 6. Calcifications Made Easy, 7. Management of Masses: BI-RADS 2, 3 or 4?, 8. Multiple Masses, 9. Architectural Distortion, 10. Mammographic Asymmetries, 11. Expanding the Differential Diagnosis: Going Beyond IDC-NOS

Section III: Screening Detection

12. Finding Cancers in Dense Tissue, 13. Measuring and Managing Breast Cancer Risk

Section IV: Diagnostic Examinations and Management

14. The Painful and the Palpable, 15. Evaluation of Nipple Discharge, 16. The Male Breast, 17. Imaging the Patient with Breast Cancer

Section V: Postoperative Studies

18. The Postoperative Breast, 19. Evaluating Women with Implants

Section VI: Interventions

20. Breast Needle Biopsy: Tips for Challenging Cases