Breast Diseases

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.

Classification BI-RADS®. Mammography. - Ultrasound. - Magnetic Resonance Scanning. - Nuclear Medicine: PET Scan, Breast Scintigraphy and MBI. - Other Imaging Methods. - Mammographic Screening. - Special Screening Situations. - Percutaneous Biopsies - Clinical and Radiological Aspects. - Percutaneous Biopsies - Histopathological Aspects. - Histopathological Classification of Benign Lesions. - Breast Lump. - Mastalgia. - Nipple Discharge. - Gynecomastia. - Infectious Breast Diseases. - Classification of Proliferative Breast Lesions. - Treatment of Proliferative Breast Lesions. - Ductal Carcinoma in situ. - Identifying High-Risk Patients. - Practical Aspects of Genetic Counselling. - Prevention: Habits and Behavior. - Chemoprevention. - Risk Reducing Surgeries. - Carcinogenesis and Natural History of Breast Cancer. - Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Classification of Breast Cancer. - Staging and Prognostic Factors. - Epidemiology of Breast Cancer. - Predictive and Prognostic Factors: Genetic Signatures, Adjuvant! and PREDICT. - Mastectomy. - Conservative Breast Surgery. - Surgery of Axillary and Regional Lymph Nodes. - Surgery of Non-Palpable Breast Lesions. - Handling the Surgical Specimen. - Principles of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery. - Partial Breast Reconstruction Pedicles. - Breast Reconstruction with Implants. - Breast Reconstruction with Myocutaneous Flaps. - Lipofilling. - Aesthetic Breast Surgery. - Early Breast Cancer. - Locally Advanced Breast Surgery. - Influence of Histologic, Immunohistochemical and Molecular Types on Therapeutics. - Inflammatory Carcinoma. - Invasive Lobular Carcinoma. - Occult Breast Cancer. - Paget' s Disease. - Nonepithelial Breast Cancer. - Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer. - Breast Cancer in Young Patients. - Breast Cancer in Elderly Patients. - Multifocal, Multicentric and Bilateral Carcinoma. - Breast Cancer in Men. - Local Relapses. - Breast Cancer in Patients with Previous Aesthetic Surgery. - Radiotherapy. - Hormonal Therapy. - Adjuvant Chemotherapy. - Therapy Anti-Her-2. - Neoadjuvant Therapy. - Other Systemic Treatments. - Follow-up. - Survivorship. - Physical Rehabilitation after Breast Cancer Treatment. - Contraception and Infertility. - Climateric Treatment after Breast Cancer. - Metastatic Breast Cancer - Therapies and Palliative Care.