Designed in a small-format for practical reading and point-of-care setting use, this work presents the most up-to-date concepts on breast diseases. The main objective of this book is to propagate current knowledge of the most frequent breast diseases, being a quick reference, evidence-based manual covering the major clinical scenarios in mastology. The essence of the work can be summarized in the following sentence: "access to maximum content in the least amount of time.¿The book contains data that will allow readers to understand and treat patients with different complaints and diseases. Each chapter presents a flow chart and a summary of the five major publications on the subject. This is unique in comparison with other books in this medical specialty.Developed by a team of international expert specialists who deal with breast pathologies on a daily basis, the book also includes additional contributions from experienced, renowned professionals in interdisciplinary specialties related to the main area.This book will be of interest to physicians who deal with breast diseases and wish to improve their knowledge through exposure to state-of-the-art data and best practices advice. It is also directed to medical students and residents in training within mastology.

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Classification BI-RADS®. - Mammography.- Ultrasound.- Magnetic Resonance Scanning.- Nuclear Medicine: PET Scan, Breast Scintigraphy and MBI.- Other Imaging Methods.- Mammographic Screening.- Special Screening Situations.- Percutaneous Biopsies - Clinical and Radiological Aspects.- Percutaneous Biopsies - Histopathological Aspects.- Histopathological Classification of Benign Lesions.- Breast Lump.- Mastalgia.- Nipple Discharge.- Gynecomastia.- Infectious Breast Diseases.- Classification of Proliferative Breast Lesions.- Treatment of Proliferative Breast Lesions.- Ductal Carcinoma in situ.- Identifying High-Risk Patients.- Practical Aspects of Genetic Counselling.- Prevention: Habits and Behavior.- Chemoprevention.- Risk Reducing Surgeries.- Carcinogenesis and Natural History of Breast Cancer.- Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Classification of Breast Cancer.- Staging and Prognostic Factors.- Epidemiology of Breast Cancer.- Predictive and Prognostic Factors: Genetic Signatures, Adjuvant! and PREDICT.- Mastectomy.- Conservative Breast Surgery.- Surgery of Axillary and Regional Lymph Nodes.- Surgery of Non-Palpable Breast Lesions.- Handling the Surgical Specimen.- Principles of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery.- Partial Breast Reconstruction - Pedicles.- Breast Reconstruction with Implants.- Breast Reconstruction with Myocutaneous Flaps.- Lipofilling.- Aesthetic Breast Surgery.- Early Breast Cancer.- Locally Advanced Breast Surgery.- Influence of Histologic, Immunohistochemical and Molecular Types on Therapeutics.- Inflammatory Carcinoma.- Invasive Lobular Carcinoma.- Occult Breast Cancer.- Paget's Disease.- Nonepithelial Breast Cancer.- Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer.- Breast Cancer in Young Patients.- Breast Cancer in Elderly Patients.- Multifocal, Multicentric and Bilateral Carcinoma.- Breast Cancer in Men.- Local Relapses.- Breast Cancer in Patients with Previous Aesthetic Surgery.- Radiotherapy.- Hormonal Therapy.- Adjuvant Chemotherapy.- Therapy Anti-Her-2.- Neoadjuvant Therapy.- Other Systemic Treatments.- Follow-up.- Survivorship.- Physical Rehabilitation after Breast Cancer Treatment.- Contraception and Infertility.- Climateric Treatment after Breast Cancer.- Metastatic Breast Cancer - Therapies and Palliative Care.