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Breast Ultrasound.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, 2003Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (1023 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469875712
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Breast UltrasoundDDC classification:
  • 618.1/907543
LOC classification:
  • RG493.5.U47 -- .S738 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION TO BREAST ULTRASOUND -- BREAST ULTRASOUND EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS -- BREAST ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUE -- BREAST ANATOMY: THE BASIS FOR UNDERSTANDING SONOGRAPHY -- TARGETED INDICATION: PALPABLE ABNORMALITY -- TARGETED INDICATION: MAMMOGRAPHIC ABNORMALITY -- NONTARGETED INDICATIONS -- NONTARGETED INDICATIONS: BREAST SECRETIONS, NIPPLE DISCHARGE, AND INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY LESIONS OF THE BREAST -- NONTARGETED INDICATIONS: MAMMARY IMPLANTS* -- SONOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF BREAST CYSTS -- NONMALIGNANT BREAST DISORDERS THAT HAVE COMPLEX CYSTIC PHASES -- ULTRASOUND OF SOLID BREAST NODULES: DISTINGUISHING BENIGN FROM MALIGNANT -- BENIGN SOLID NODULES: SPECIFIC PATHOLOGIC DIAGNOSES -- MALIGNANT SOLID BREAST NODULES: SPECIFIC TYPES -- ATYPICAL, HIGH-RISK, PREMALIGNANT, AND LOCALLY AGGRESSIVE LESIONS -- EVALUATION OF THE MALE BREAST -- ULTRASOUND-GUIDED NEEDLE PROCEDURES IN THE BREAST -- SONOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF THE IATROGENICALLY ALTERED BREAST -- EVALUATION OF REGIONAL LYMPH NODES IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS -- DOPPLER EVALUATION OF THE BREAST -- FALSE-NEGATIVE AND FALSE-POSITIVE BREAST SONOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS -- APPENDIX -- INDEX.
Summary: This volume is a complete and definitive guide to performing and interpreting breast ultrasound examinations. The book explains every aspect of the examination in detail-from equipment selection and examining techniques, to correlations between sonographic and mammographic findings, to precise characterization of sonographic abnormalities. A chapter on Doppler characterization of breast lesions is included. Complementing the text are more than 1,500 illustrations, including ultrasound scans, corresponding mammographic images, and diagrams of key aspects of the examination.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION TO BREAST ULTRASOUND -- BREAST ULTRASOUND EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS -- BREAST ULTRASOUND TECHNIQUE -- BREAST ANATOMY: THE BASIS FOR UNDERSTANDING SONOGRAPHY -- TARGETED INDICATION: PALPABLE ABNORMALITY -- TARGETED INDICATION: MAMMOGRAPHIC ABNORMALITY -- NONTARGETED INDICATIONS -- NONTARGETED INDICATIONS: BREAST SECRETIONS, NIPPLE DISCHARGE, AND INTRADUCTAL PAPILLARY LESIONS OF THE BREAST -- NONTARGETED INDICATIONS: MAMMARY IMPLANTS* -- SONOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF BREAST CYSTS -- NONMALIGNANT BREAST DISORDERS THAT HAVE COMPLEX CYSTIC PHASES -- ULTRASOUND OF SOLID BREAST NODULES: DISTINGUISHING BENIGN FROM MALIGNANT -- BENIGN SOLID NODULES: SPECIFIC PATHOLOGIC DIAGNOSES -- MALIGNANT SOLID BREAST NODULES: SPECIFIC TYPES -- ATYPICAL, HIGH-RISK, PREMALIGNANT, AND LOCALLY AGGRESSIVE LESIONS -- EVALUATION OF THE MALE BREAST -- ULTRASOUND-GUIDED NEEDLE PROCEDURES IN THE BREAST -- SONOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF THE IATROGENICALLY ALTERED BREAST -- EVALUATION OF REGIONAL LYMPH NODES IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS -- DOPPLER EVALUATION OF THE BREAST -- FALSE-NEGATIVE AND FALSE-POSITIVE BREAST SONOGRAPHIC EXAMINATIONS -- APPENDIX -- INDEX.

This volume is a complete and definitive guide to performing and interpreting breast ultrasound examinations. The book explains every aspect of the examination in detail-from equipment selection and examining techniques, to correlations between sonographic and mammographic findings, to precise characterization of sonographic abnormalities. A chapter on Doppler characterization of breast lesions is included. Complementing the text are more than 1,500 illustrations, including ultrasound scans, corresponding mammographic images, and diagrams of key aspects of the examination.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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