Breast Diseases
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About this book

Designed in a small-format for practical reading and point-of-care setting use, this work presents the most up-to-date concepts on breast diseases. The main objective of this book is to propagate current knowledge of the most frequent breast diseases, being a quick reference, evidence-based manual covering the major clinical scenarios in mastology. The essence of the work can be summarized in the following sentence: "access to maximum content in the least amount of time."

The book contains data that will allow readers to understand and treat patients with different complaints and diseases. Each chapter presents a flow chart and a summary of the five major publications on the subject. This is unique in comparison with other books in this medical specialty.

Developed by a team of international expert specialists who deal with breast pathologies on a daily basis, the book also includes additional contributions from experienced, renowned professionals in interdisciplinary specialties related to the main area.

This book will be of interest to physicians who deal with breast diseases and wish to improve their knowledge through exposure to state-of-the-art data and best practices advice. It is also directed to medical students and residents in training within mastology.

(This title was originally published in Portuguese by the Brazilian publisher Atheneu in 2011 and has sold very well and gone into a third edition, published in 2017.  The Editors have all English language rights, detailed in the attached contract, although it is in Portuguese).


Information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9783030136352
eBook ISBN
9783030136369
Subtopic
Oncology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. BI-RADS® Classification
  4. Mammography
  5. Ultrasonography
  6. Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  7. Nuclear Medicine: Sentinel Lymph Node Detection and Radioguided Occult Lesion Localization (ROLL)
  8. Other Imaging Methods
  9. Mammographic Screening: General Population
  10. Special Screening Situations
  11. Percutaneous Biopsies: Clinical and Radiological Aspects
  12. Percutaneous Biopsies: Histopathological Aspects
  13. Histopathological Classification of Benign Lesions
  14. Breast Lump
  15. Breast Pain
  16. Nipple Discharge
  17. Gynecomastia
  18. Infectious Breast Diseases
  19. Classification of Intraductal Precursor and Proliferative Lesions
  20. Procedure for Cases of Intraductal and Proliferative Lesions
  21. Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
  22. Identifying High-Risk Female Patients
  23. Practical Aspects of Genetic Counseling: Genetic Tests to Identify Risks
  24. Prevention: Behavioral Measures and Habits
  25. Prevention: Chemoprevention (Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer)
  26. Prevention: Risk-Reducing Surgery
  27. Carcinogenesis and Natural History of Breast Cancer
  28. Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Classification of Invasive Breast Carcinomas
  29. Staging and Prognostic Factors
  30. Epidemiology of Breast Cancer
  31. Prognostic Predictors: Genetic Signatures, Adjuvant!, and PREDICT
  32. Mastectomy
  33. Breast Conserving Surgery
  34. Axillary Surgery and Other Regional Lymph Nodes
  35. Non-palpable Lesion Surgery
  36. Handling of Surgical Specimen
  37. Principles of Oncoplastic Surgery
  38. Partial Breast Reconstruction
  39. Breast Reconstruction with Implants
  40. Breast Reconstruction with Myocutaneous Flaps
  41. Autologous Fat Grafting in the Breast: Lipofilling
  42. Aesthetic Breast Surgery
  43. Early Breast Cancer
  44. Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
  45. Influence on Histologic, Immunohistochemical, and Molecular Subtypes on Therapeutics
  46. Inflammatory Breast Cancer
  47. Invasive Lobular Carcinoma
  48. Occult Breast Cancer
  49. Paget’s Disease
  50. Non-epithelial Tumors
  51. Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer
  52. Breast Cancer in Young Women
  53. Breast Cancer in Elderly Women
  54. Multifocal, Multicentric, and Bilateral Carcinoma
  55. Breast Cancer in Men
  56. Local Recurrence After Surgery
  57. Breast Cancer After Aesthetic Surgery
  58. Locorregional Treatment in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer
  59. Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer
  60. Adjuvant Hormone Therapy for Breast Cancer
  61. Adjuvant Chemotherapy of Breast Cancer
  62. Anti-HER2 Adjuvant Therapy
  63. Neoadjuvant Therapies
  64. Other Systemic Treatments for Breast Cancer
  65. Follow-Up After Breast Cancer
  66. Survivorship: Life After Breast Cancer
  67. Physical Rehabilitation After Breast Cancer Treatment
  68. Contraception and Infertility
  69. Approaching Climacteric Issues
  70. Metastatic Disease: Therapy and Palliative Care
  71. Back Matter

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