Full Description
This textbook is intended to give most of the information a Mammographer should have to understand and perform successfully breast imaging techniques.
It is structured in 6 parts, Basic theory, Technical quality, Clinical quality, on the Report, other breast imaging techniques and Radio-Protection, Ergonomics, the academic training and the communicant skill.
Every part is divided in chapters, made up of short paragraphs with very specific titles, to give the reader the opportunity to find the answer to her/his question easily.
Much importance is given to the image produced, which should be characterized by a very high level of diagnostic information, to allow the reader to find the lesion, if it is there, as early as possible. The topic of how to produce the image is dealt with then, but also of how to evaluate thoroughly and appropriately the quality of it. Giving this in-depth knowledge was the aim of this work.
The book covers up-to-date information about breast imaging and the surveillance pathway of the patient with breast cancer; it is therefore, of significant interest to Radiographers, Technologists, Radiologists, Breast Nurses; Radiographers students, both undergraduate and postgraduate; Physiotherapists.
Contents
PART 1, BASIC THEORY 1.- Chapter 1. Epidemiology.- Chapter 2. Risk factors.- Chapter 3. Anatomy.- Chapter 4. Carcinogenesis.-Chapter 5. Classification of Breast neoplastic diseases notes on surgical and therapeutic treatments.- Chapter 6. Theoretical foundation of mammography screening and clinical mammography; dedicated centers. PART 2. TECHNICAL QUALITY.- Chapter 7. The Mammographic unit and the detectors.- Chapter 8. The digital image, its processing; technical quality controls QC in mammography, hints.- PART 3. CLINICAL QUALITY 65.- Chapter 9. The standard mammography examination technique: Positioning the patient.- Chapter 10. Non standard patient positioning; the Lateral projection and the additional CC projections for OQ and IQ.- Chapter 11. Verifying clinical image quality.- Chapter 12. Clinical quality classification.- Chapter 13. Mammographic findings, call backs and the triangulation.- Chapter 14. Breast implant imaging in mammography: the Eklund technique.- Chapter 15. Male breast cancer MBC.-Chapter 16. The procedure before performing a mammography examination.- Chapter 17. Main artifacts in mammography images.- PART 4. ABOUT THE REPORT, OTHER BREAST IMAGING TECHNIQUES AND THE RADIO PROTECTION IN SENOLOGY.- Chapter 18. The mammography report ; cytological and micro-histological sampling; the stereotactic biopsy.- Chapter 19. The management of the surgical specimen.- Chapter 20. The DBT tomosynthesis, CESM mammography with media contrast agents; notes on MBI, Molecular Breast Imaging.- Chapter 21. Radio protection in mammography.- Chapter 22. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the breast BMRI.- PART 5. ERGONOMICS, ACADEMIC TRAINING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS.- Chapter 23. Ergonomics and work-related musculoskeletal disorders.- Chapter 24. The evolution of the Mammographer education EBP and the communication skills in the mammography room.- PART 6. APPENDIX: Annexes 1.- Annex 1. Radiographic anatomy of the breast: subdivision into portions, according to the hands of the clock, and by anatomical parts.- Annex 2. Radiographic geometrical factors in mammography.- Annex 3. Criteria for iconographic accuracy in mammography (extension of the tissue acquired and acquisition geometry.- Annex 4. Data collection form for BMRI examination.- Annex 5. The Poggi Method: a new approach for the production of high quality mammography.- Annex 6. Evaluation of the quality of the image produced in mammography by extension and distension of the tissue, acquisition geometry and compression, with the system POINT POBMI INTEGRATO POGGI.
