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Breast Cancer: The Art and Science of Early Detection with Mammography, Peception, Interpretation, Histopatholigic Correlation.


RG493

2004-025269

1-58890-259-5

Breast cancer; the art and science of early detection with mammography mammography, diagnostic procedure that uses low-dose X rays to detect abnormalities in the breasts. The early diagnosis of breast cancer made possible by the routine use of mammography for screening women increases a woman's treatment alternatives and improves her ; peception, interpretation, histopatholigic correlation.

Tabar, Laszlo et al.

Thieme Medical Publishers, [c]2005

476 p.

$199.95

Tabar (radiology radiology, branch of medicine specializing in the use of X rays, gamma rays, radioactive isotopes, and other forms of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. , Uppsala University Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden, 64 kilometres (40 miles) north-northwest of Stockholm.[1] Founded in 1477, it claims to be the oldest university in Scandinavia, outdating the University of Copenhagen ; mammography, Falun Central Hospital, Sweden) details a method for evaluating mammograms, based on anatomic architecture, substructures, and patterns. Some 16,00 mammograms and histologic his·tol·o·gy  
n. pl. his·tol·o·gies
1. The anatomical study of the microscopic structure of animal and plant tissues.

2. The microscopic structure of tissue.
 sections illustrate the range of normal and abnormal breast tissue, and photomicrographs of large, thin-section pathology slides and subgross 3D pathology sections are correlated with mammographic images to explain why mammograms appear as they do. Color photos and instructions show how to position patients to obtain the best image quality.
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