Clark's Essential Guide to Mammography

Description

This easy-to-understand pocketbook in the highly respected Clark’s stable of imaging texts is an invaluable tool and training aid, providing essential information for mammographic positioning, technique and interpretation for mammography practitioners at all levels. Adopting a systematic and structured approach facilitating rapid reference in the clinical setting, the book covers general principles and all routine mammographic projections, including additional and adapted projections covered in a separate section, and is highly illustrated with clear explanatory line diagrams and imaging photographs. Clark’s Essential Guide to Mammography is ideal as an educational tool for trainee mammographers, trainee assistant and associate apprenticeship mammographers, mammography training teams and universities delivering mammography education and a convenient clinical guide for practising mammographers, including assistant and associate apprenticeship mammographers. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Section 1 Key Aspects of Mammography Practice Anatomy Positioning Terminology Quality Control and Quality Assurance Communication and Consent Work-Related Musculo-Skeletal Disorders (WRMSD) Working Practices Breast Compression References Section 2 Routine Mammographic Projections Routine Projections: Cranio-Caudal (CC) Routine Projections: Medio-Lateral Oblique (MLO) Tomosynthesis The Augmented Breast References Section 3 Additional/Modified Mammographic Projections Additional/Modified Projection: Cranio-Caudal – Laterally Rotated Additional/Modified Projection: Cranio-Caudal – Medially Rotated Additional/Modified Projection: Extended Cranio-Caudal Additional/Modified Projection: Lateral (Medio-Lateral) Additional/Modified Projection: Lateral (Latero-Medial) Additional/Modified Projection: Axillary Tail Additional/Modified Projection: Localised Compression/Paddle Additional/Modified Projection: Magnified Stereotactic Procedures Specimen Tissue Imaging References Section 4 Useful Information for Mammographic Practice Medical Terminology Reference Index