Diagnostic breast imaging

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This acclaimed text offers a comprehensive guide to breast imaging and diagnostics, essential for clinicians diagnosing breast disease. The updated third edition includes advancements in mammography, ultrasound, breast MRI, percutaneous interventions, and emerging technologies, with evidence-based approaches throughout. Key features include extensive coverage of examination procedures, technical requirements, and the histologic, clinical, and radiologic appearances of various breast pathologies. It presents findings from international screening studies and nearly 1,200 clear radiographic images illustrating normal findings, benign and malignant disorders, and changes due to trauma, surgery, and therapy. Innovations such as digital mammography, tomosynthesis, and computer-assisted detection (CAD) are discussed, alongside new chapters on imaging implants and lesions of uncertain malignant potential. The text employs a systematic methodology for detection, diagnosis, and assessment, complemented by easy-to-follow flowcharts for diagnostic work-ups of both typical and atypical cases. Authored by leading experts with extensive clinical experience, this resource is vital for radiologists, residents, gynecologists, oncologists, surgeons, technologists, and other specialists dedicated to improving breast disease outcomes.