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Diagnosis of Diseases of the Breast
by Lawrence W. Bassett, MD, Valerie P. Jackson, MD, Reza Jahan, MD, Yao S. Fu, MD, and Richard H. Gold, MD, 610 pp, with illus, ISBN 0-7216-3796-5, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders Co, 1997.
Arch Surg. 1999;134:1279.
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This 610-page book is authored by Lawrence Bassett and Valerie Jackson with 3 supportive coauthors, Reza Jahan, Yao S. Fu, and Richard Gold. These diagnostic radiologists combine their efforts with those of 28 of their colleagues to review the field of breast imaging.
Diagnosis of Diseases of the Breast is divided into 7 sections involving 32 chapters. It is a comprehensive review of a panorama of pretreatment and posttreatment imaging studies. Special emphasis is given to techniques for evaluating results (clinical outcome analyses), historical data, and a continuing comparison of normal breast structures with diseased states. There is a heavy emphasis on benign diseases, not often addressed in the imaging literature. This text is a distillate of the many imaging studies that have emerged since 1975 and will serve as an excellent diagnostic reference in a rapidly changing field that has benefited from technical advancements. The variety of imaging techniques . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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