Breast Cancer: Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutic Guidance - 9783132019317

Breast Cancer: Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutic GuidanceAuthor(s): Uwe Fischer, Friedemann Baum, Susanne Luftner-Nagel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Thieme Publishing Group, Germany\nImprint: Thieme Publishing Group\nISBN-13: 9783132019317, 978-3132019317\nSynopsis\nBreast Cancer: Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutic Guidance provides a concise, practical, and practice-based source of up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic information for the general radiologist. In the diagnostic phase of evaluating breast disorders, the overriding consideration in the examination and assessment is to reduce false diagnoses to the absolute minimum-a principle wholly in the interests of the patient. The particular diagnostic pathway chosen will depend on the highly variable individual presentations and the associated findings. A major focus of the book is the comparative value of the various diagnostic imaging modalities. As well as discussing conventional mammography and adjunct modalities such as br.