Breast Ultrasound

by Ashok Khurana, Rahul Sachdev, Manjula Handa Virmani

The book titled “Step by Step Breast Ultrasound” dicusses Breast Ultrasound, which has advanced massively in the last five years, both in quantity and quality. This book serves as a guide for all health care professionals dealing with breast imaging. The secondary imaging, which is used to further characterize all mammographic lesions, is ultrasound. It is also used in patients with clinical abnormalities, which are not seen in mammography. The book has 4 sections divided into 20 chapters. Section 1 focuses on introduction and brief history of Breast Ultrasound; Section 2 deals with technical aspects such as equipment considerations, recent technical developments, anatomical considerations, patient positioning, scanning techniques, echogenecity, annotating lesion location, reporting and communication and interventional procedures; section 3 contains chapters on benign and malignant lesions and also its development, evaluation, assessment, cystic lesions and complex cystic lesions; finally Section 4 deals with post-treatment evaluation.

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