Management of a Diagnostic Breast Center
Management of a Diagnostic Breast Center F. Baum Cancer is a topic that provokes anxiety. In our industrialized society, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and represents…
Examination Concepts
Prevention There are essentially three forms of prevention: Primary prevention: Primary prevention aims to actually prevent the occurrence of a disease, thus decreasing its incidence. Colonoscopy is a good example…
Logistics in an Interdisciplinary Breast Center
Logistics in an Interdisciplinary Breast Center G. Emons 15.1 Background In the last third of the 20th century it became clear that efficient diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer requires close…
Radiotherapy of Breast Cancer
Radiotherapy of Breast Cancer C. F. Hess For many decades now, radiotherapy has occupied a firm place in the multimodal treatment of carcinoma of the breast. It is an essential…
Tumor Formation
Life on earth is based on genes that are passed on from one generation to the next. Genetic material is transmitted in the form of nucleic acids (DNA) contained within…
Medical Treatment of Breast Cancer
Basic Principles and Objectives Primary breast carcinoma is a systemic, heterogeneous disease. It is considered a systemic disease because it is now known that even the smallest carcinoma can trigger…
Development, Anatomy, and Physiology of the Mammary Gland
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Ultrasound of Salivary Glands and the Non-endocrine Neck
Figure 11.1 The six neck levels are demonstrated. The darker areas are the likely sites for metastatic papillary and medullary carcinoma Level I This level has a close relationship to…
Ultrasound and Mapping of Neck Lymph Nodes
Figure 8.1 Surgical levels of the neck Level I constitutes lymph nodes above the anterior and posterior bellies of the digastric muscle cephalad to the hyoid bone and inferior to…
Thyroid Ultrasound Physics
Figure. 2.1 Speed of sound . The speed of sound is constant for a specific material and does not vary with frequency. Speed of sound for various biological tissues is…
