Breast Core Biopsy, A Pathologic-Radiologic Approach

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.
Key Features

* Correlate radiologic features with pathologic findings to accurately evaluate neoplastic and non-neoplastic breast lesions.
* Consider all possible entities via differential diagnoses.
* Get hands-on advice in the assessment and evaluation of each specimen using a highlighted list of "points to remember" at the end of every work up.
* Make the most informed clinical recommendations by understanding the pitfalls and limitations of breast core biopsies.
* Solve your toughest challenges using more than 650 full-color illustrations—950 in all—for comparison.
* Avoid medico-legal implications by providing the most complete and precise diagnosis possible.

Table of 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