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Volume 331:1246-1247 November 3, 1994 Number 18

The Diagnosis and Detection of Breast Disease

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By Deborah E. Powell and Carol B. Stelling. 452 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1994. $80. ISBN 0-8016-7487-5.

The collaboration of two experts from the University of Kentucky, one in pathology (Deborah E. Powell) and the other in diagnostic radiology (Carol B. Stelling), makes this book an eminently practical and useful addition to the library of books on breast diseases. The book is divided into two parts: a discussion of the technical and clinical aspects of breast diagnosis and an atlas of breast diseases.

The first part contains chapters on the normal breast (structure, function, and epidemiology) and the various techniques available for the diagnostic exploration of this organ, such as mammography, self-examination, and techniques for localizing nonpalpable . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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