Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM), a novel advanced mammography technique using dual-energy mammography in combination with intravenous contrast administration in order to increase the diagnostic performance of digital mammography. Readers will find helpful information on the principles of CEM and indications for the technique. Detailed attention is devoted to image interpretation, with presentation of case examples and highlighting of pitfalls and artifacts. Other topics to be addressed include the establishment of a CEM program, the comparative merits of CEM and MRI, and the roles of CEM in screening populations and monitoring of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. CEM became commercially available in 2011 and is increasingly being used in clinical practice owing to its superiority over full-field digital mammography. This book will be an ideal source of knowledge and guidance for all who wish to start using the technique or to learn more about it.

Contents:

Chapter 1 - History of contrast-enhanced mammography

Chapter 2 - CEM: physics

Chapter 3 - Setting up a CEM program

Chapter 4 - Interpretation of CEM images: examples, artifacts and pitfalls

Chapter 5 - CEM versus breast MRI

Chapter 6 - CEM a problem-solving tool

Chapter 7 - CEM in screening populations

Chapter 8 - CEM in NAC response monitoring

Chapter 9 - CEM and the American College of Radiology BI-RADS lexicon.

Chapter 10 - Disadvantages of CEM