BookPeter Hogg, Judith Kelly, Claire Mercer, editors.
Summary: This up-to-date, evidence-based book covers the whole range of mammography and mammography-related techniques used in practice, and also the rapid and increasingly sophisticated evolution of mammographic clinical practice and technology.A wide range of topics, from the psychological and emotional support required from the practitioner to all aspects of screening and symptomatic mammographic imaging, are discussed. Digital Mammography: A Holistic Approach is aimed at radiographers, technicians, technologists, physicists, nurses and medical practitioners worldwide, and enables the reader to gain a better understanding of techniques, equipment and anatomy.
Contents:
Part 1. Introduction and background
1. Anatomy and physiology: Breast anatomy
2. Breast Density and Influencing Factors
3. Aetiology and epidemiology of breast cancer
4. Other breast diseases
5. Signs and symptoms of breast cancer with management pathways
6. Disease progression ? local and distal spread (mechanisms)
7. Mammography Screening: Philosophy evidence for and against
8. Screening programs for breast cancer in Europe
Part 2. Caring for Patients and Clients
9. Sue's story: the big journey
10. Psychological considerations in attending for mammography screening
11. Emotional Intelligence
12. Client-practitioner interactions within breast care services
13. The use of Digital Health Technology and Social Media to support Breast Screening
14. Pain in mammography
15. Tissue viability and skin tearing in mammography
Part 3. Equipment
16. Mammography imaging equipment
17. Equipment quality control
18. Radiation dose in mammography
19. Mammographic Density
Part 4. Imaging Techniques
20. Recording clinical and client information prior to imaging
21. Practical mammography
22. Mammography Compression: A Need for Mechanical Standardization
23. Repetitive Strain Injury
24. Supplementary Mammographic Projections
25. Magnification and compression views
26. Specimen Imaging
27. Imaging the Augmented Breast
28. Imaging Bariatric, Post Surgical and Limited Mobility Clients
29. Male Mammography
30. Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
31. Reflection on the Oslo Tomosynthesis Screening Trial
32. Purpose of Interventional Procedures
33. Image Guided Interventional Techniques
34. Contrast enhanced investigations
Part 5. Service Quality Assurance
35. Radiographic Service Quality.-36. Observer studies in Mammography.