Crushed Stone-Like Calcifications

Internationally renowned breast cancer imagers, Laszlo Tabar and Peter B. Dean, and breast pathologist, Tibor Tot, distill decades of clinical expertise in this new volume covering the most frequently occurring malignant type of calcification: the pleomorphic, crushed stone-like calcification. The book presents a systematic approach to using mammographic features to distinguish breast cancer subtypes originating within the terminal ductual lobular unit (TDLU). More than 800 images demonstrate pathological findings with superb clarity, providing a state-of-the-art visual reference for interpreting mammograms in the clinical setting.This title features: concise descriptions of mammographic findings correlated with high-quality MR images and histopathologic images to provide a reliable reference for prognostic classification; systematic guidelines for developing a course of treatment tailored to each particular prognostic feature; extensive coverage of all aspects of benign differential diagnostic counterparts, including fibrocystic change, fibroadenoma, and papilloma; straightforward discussion of terminology based on a thorough analysis of subgross anatomy, 3D histologic features, and long-term disease outcomes; and, 3D viewing glasses enclosed in the book for perceiving specially marked images in their true three-dimensional form.