By V. Lattanzio, G. Simonetti, C. Di Maggio

Breast melanoma screening via mammography has proved to be the single technique of decreasing mortality from this disorder by way of up to 30-50% around the globe. notwithstanding, regardless of the common usage of screening mammography and the continuously transforming into variety of examinations played each day, the translation of mammograms is still mostly subjective and isn't even constantly transparent. the present terminology remains to be faraway from standardized and is frequently even beside the point. this can be in part as a result of a scarcity of entire wisdom of mammographic symptoms and the way to file them in transparent, right language. The middle of this e-book involves top quality photographs that truly show common breast good points and pathologic abnormalities, therefore supplying crucial visible aid for radiologists analyzing mammograms.

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Detail of the craniocaudal projection Craniocaudal projection 49 CIRCUMSCRIBED OPACITY Equal density Bilateral ovoid opacities, in different quadrants; blurred margins, similar density to the adjacent fibroglandular tissue. Some seem denser because they overlap one another, not because they are structurally different. Craniocaudal projection 50 Craniocaudal projection CIRCUMSCRIBED OPACITY Equal density Bilateral ovoid opacities, in different quadrants; blurred margins, similar density to the adjacent fibroglandular tissue.

This pattern is highly predictive of a benign lesion. Detail of the craniocaudal projection Craniocaudal projection 49 CIRCUMSCRIBED OPACITY Equal density Bilateral ovoid opacities, in different quadrants; blurred margins, similar density to the adjacent fibroglandular tissue. Some seem denser because they overlap one another, not because they are structurally different. Craniocaudal projection 50 Craniocaudal projection CIRCUMSCRIBED OPACITY Equal density Bilateral ovoid opacities, in different quadrants; blurred margins, similar density to the adjacent fibroglandular tissue.

Craniocaudal projection (A) 38 Craniocaudal projection (B) CIRCUMSCRIBED OPACITY Irregular shape The spot compression views show intralesional granular calcifications (A) (C), and the irregular margins are easier to see (A) (B) (C). I ciail of the craniocaudal projection ( ') 39 CIRCUMSCRIBED OPACITY Sharp margins The spot compression views show examples of circumscribed opacities with sharp margins; the radiolucent rim is readily identified. Density higher than the surrounding fibroglandular tissue.

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