Clark’s Essential Guide to Mammography

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.

PREFACE

Clark’s Essential Guide to Mammography is part of the Clark’s series of diagnostic imaging books. This particular title aims to provide an overview and guide to routine mammographic examinations. We aim for this to be an invaluable tool and training aid, a true pocket guide providing essential information for mammographic positioning and technique for mammography practitioners at all levels. It is highly illustrated, with the aim of providing a clear, fast, and reliable source of information promoting patient-centred care.

We hope that this guide will be an essential educational tool for trainees at all levels and for universities delivering mammography education and a convenient clinical guide for practising mammographers, including assistant and associate apprenticeship mammographers.

It has been an absolute pleasure to write this book, not least because of the rewarding experience of sharing knowledge and research from years of experience. It has been a demonstration of the benefits of team working and collaboration of skills and knowledge.

We are most grateful of all to those individuals who have allowed us to share their images; often at an anxious time they gave their generous consent to enable expansion of all our learning. We are very grateful to you all.

Table of contents :

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