Radionuclide Imaging of the Breast

<p>Demonstrating the role of nuclear medicine as a complementary technique to mammography and other imaging modalities for the diagnosis of breast cancer Radionuclide Imaging of the Breast provides a comprehensive overview of scintimammography-an accurate safe and noninvasive imaging method for the evaluation of breast lesions and malignancies. <br>Reveals the encouraging results of multicenter clinical trials in the U.S. and Canada using 99mTc sestamibi breast imaging for the diagnosis of primary breast carcinoma! <br>Addressing nonsurgical sampling of nonpalpable breast lesions as an effective means of providing diagnostic and prognostic information Radionuclide Imaging of the Breast</p><li>discusses increasing the diagnostic value of mammography and its widespread use <br> </li><li>examines the reliability of FDG-PET and FDG-SPECT in detecting lymph node involvement and distant metastases <br> </li><li>reviews breast cancer imaging with monoclonal antibodies including murine and bioengineered antibodies <br> </li><li>compares the benefits and limitations of Thallium-20l to 99mTc-sestamibi breast imaging in evaluating suspected malignancy <br> </li><li>assesses the clinical impact of scintimammography as an adjunctive test to mammography to improve the dependability of diagnoses <br> </li><li>considers the possibility of replacing axillary lymph node dissection in patients with small breast cancers with the sentinel node approach <br> </li><li>clarifies the importance of surgery in the multimodality treatment of breast cancer <br> </li><li>elucidates pathologic difficulties for breast cancer diagnosis <br> </li><li>and more! <br>Radionuclide Imaging of the Breast serves as an essential reference for nuclear medicine physicians radiologists breast surgeons medical and surgical oncologists gynecologists pathologists internists and primary care physicians.</li>