The top-selling title in our Imaging Companion Series is now in its revised, updated Third Edition. Featuring over 1,000 large, clear images accompanied by brief, bulleted "key facts," this how-to book provides everything readers need to obtain high-quality scans...correlate radiologic, pathologic, and clinical findings...and communicate the significance of imaging results to referring physicians. This edition has a new chapter on magnetic resonance imaging and new information on the ACR Ultrasound BI-RADS Lexicon; keloids and hypertrophic scars; cutaneous angiosarcoma; subareolar abscess; columnar alteration with prominent apical snouts and secretions (CAPSS); mucocele-like lesions; cat scratch disease; granulomatous mastitis; and granular cell tumor.

CHAPTER ONE Breast Cancer: An Overview

Breast Cancer Facts

Prognostic Factors

Risk Marker Lesions

CHAPTER TWO Regulatory Issues

MQSA: Requirements

MQSA: Inspections

MQSA: Personnel Qualifications

CHAPTER THREE Quality Control

General Comments

Film Labeling

QC Tests (Technologists)

CHAPTER FOUR Technical Considerations

Equipment

Contrast

Technical Factors

CHAPTER FIVE Screening Mammography

General Comments

Screening Trials

Screening Recommendations

CHAPTER SIX Diagnostic Mammography and Problem Solving

General Comments

Spot Compression Views

Micro-Focus Double Spot Compression Magnification Views

CHAPTER SEVEN Breast Ultrasound

Technical Considerations

Scanning

Normal Anatomy

CHAPTER EIGHT Magnetic Resonance Imaging

General Comments

Technical Considerations

Artifacts and Pitfalls

Lesion Evaluation

CHAPTER NINE Skin

General Comments

Skin Manifestations of Breast or Systemic Diseases

Keloids and Hypertrophic Scars

Epidermal and Sebaceous Cysts

CHAPTER TEN Nipple-Areolar Complex

Normal Anatomy

Nipple Changes Associated with Breast Cancer

Dermatitis

CHAPTER ELEVEN Major Subareolar Ducts

Duct Ectasia

Subareolar Abscess

Solitary Papillomas

CHAPTER TWELVE Terminal Ducts

Normal Anatomy

Multiple (Peripheral) Papillomas

Radial Scars/Complex Sclerosing Lesions (CSL)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Lobules

Normal Anatomy

Cysts

Galactocele

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Stroma

Anatomy

Vasculature

Lymph Nodes

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Altered Breast

Excisional Breast Biopsies

Lumpectomy and Radiation Therapy

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Male Breast

Imaging the Male Breast

Gynecomastia

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Interventional Procedures

Cyst Aspiration

Pneumocystography

Ductography

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Documentation and the Mammographic Report

General Concepts

For Masses

For Calcifications

CHAPTER NINETEEN Mammography Audit

General Concepts

Definitions

Goals

Index