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BREAST CORE BIOPSY
Breast Core Biopsy
A Pathologic-Radiologic Approach
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By
Ira Bleiweiss, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Shabnam Jaffer, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Susan Drossman, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Description
This state-of-the-art reference is your visual guide to the diagnosis of the full spectrum of breast lesions seen in core biopsy specimens, including difficult and borderline pathology. Case-based presentations correlating radiologic and pathologic findings, help pathologists, radiologists, and surgeons gain a better understanding of the entire pathology process, thus greatly improving diagnostic accuracy and subsequent therapy.

Audience
Pathologists

Contents
Introduction and general considerations

Basic Radiologic Considerations?A primer for the pathologist

Pathology for Radiologists?Specimen handling, evaluation, and reporting

Well circumscribed solid lesions

Well circumscribed solid lesions with heterogeneous radiodensity

Largely cystic lesions

Partially solid, partially cystic lesions

Well circumscribed solid malignancies

Irregular densities

Spiculated architectural distortion

Architectural distortion

Introduction to stereotactic core biopsies for calcifications

Calcium oxalate crystals

Linear high density calcifications

Clustered low-density granular calcifications

Linear and branching calcifications

Miscellaneous unusual and rare lesions

Complications and follow-up?after the core

Postscript


Index


Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 216 pages, publication date: NOV-2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-0026-6
ISBN-10: 1-4160-0026-7
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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