This new volume in the popular Case Review Series in Radiology series reviews a full range of clinical issues in breast imaging, including mammographic positioning, calcifications, FNA, and ultrasound appearance of masses. Approximately 200 cases, with one to four unknown images and corresponding questions, probe your knowledge of a wide variety of topics in the field. Accompanying answers, commentary, and references help you to gain a better understanding of how the correct diagnosis was reached. Packed with hundreds of high-quality images, this affordable, easy-to-use resource offers an ideal way to sharpen your diagnostic skills and study for exams.
Features a user-friendly case format to facilitate the quick location and review of specific information.
Divides cases into Opening Round, Fair Game, and Challenge categories allowing you to assess your proficiency at three different levels of complexity.
Includes a list of questions following each case - with answers and rationales - plus a brief discussion emphasizing characteristic imaging features, differential diagnostic considerations, and key points of clinical information.
Provides detailed commentary and selected helpful references on each topic.
Includes cross-references to Breast Imaging: The Requisites, by Debra Ikeda, MD.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Moderately helpful:
As mentioned in the prior review, the pictures are small and the findings can be difficult to see. I also agree that there is too much quality control in the first section -- I wish I had the time I spent on that back. The book seems to emphasize discussion over case recognition, which wasn't what I was hoping for. Then again, a fair amount of mammography is how you manage a finding, so maybe that is okay. Although there is room for improvement, this is as good a book as I could find, is a reasonable... more info
Long awaited:
This "Case Review Series" installment was a close call, barely making it in time for the oral boards in 2006. . . but perhaps they shouldn't have hurried so much. The pictures are small, and this is not entirely necessary. Plenty of real estate on the image pages goes unused. Maybe that's not strong enough. . . . they're tiny and often non-diagnostic. Maybe it should come with a magnifying glass? The opening portion of the book spends far too much time on QC, a subject that reportedly does not... more info
