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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Diagnostic Radiology**
Focusing on high-yield information, Breast Imaging: The Core Requisites, 4th Edition emphasizes the basics to help you establish a foundational understanding of breast imaging during rotations, refresh your knowledge of key concepts, and learn strategies to provide "value-added" reports to referring clinicians. This completely rewritten and reorganized edition emphasizes the essential knowledge you need in an easy-to-read format, with thorough updates that cover new imaging modalities, the latest guidelines, and integration of physics information throughout.
Emphasizes the essentials in a templated, quick-reference format that includes numerous outlines, tables, pearls, boxed material, and bulleted content for easy reading, reference, and recall
Helps you build and solidify core knowledge to prepare you for clinical practice with critical, up-to-date information on mammography, breast ultrasound, digital breast tomosynthesis, and breast MRIs, as well as special chapters on lymph node evaluation in breast imaging, augmented and reconstructed breast, and special populations in breast imaging
Features hundreds of high-quality images, including correlations of ultrasound, mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis and MRI
Published as part of the newly reimagined Core Requisites series, an update to the popular Requisites series aimed at radiology trainees and today's busy clinicians
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Contents
1. Introduction to Mammography: The Basics
2. Why BI-RADS?: Overview of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS)
3. Mammographic Masses, Asymmetries, and Distortion
4. Mammographic Analysis of Breast Calcifications
5. Breast Ultrasound Indications and Interpretation
6. Basics of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
7. Mammographic and Ultrasound-Guided Breast Biopsy Procedures
8. Breast MRI Indications, Interpretation, and Interventions
9. Breast Pathology and Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation
10. Breast Cancer Risk Assessment
11. Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines and Supplemental Screening
12. Organized Approach to Screening Mammography
13. Organized Approach to Diagnostic Imaging
14. The Symptomatic Breast
15. Breast Cancer Staging: What the Surgeon and Oncologist Want To Know
16. After Breast Conservation Therapy
17. Lymph Node Evaluation in Breast Imaging
18. The Augmented and Reconstructed Breast
19. Special Populations in Breast Imaging
20. Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) and American College of Radiology (ACR) Accreditation Programs
21. Mammography Physics
