The normal female breast -- Overview of benign breast lesions.-Radiology of breast lesions -- Surgery of benign breast lesions.-Pathology of benign breast lesions -- Inflammatory lesions -- Cystic lesions -- Fibro-epithelial lesions -- Infiltrative pseudo-malignant lesions -- Epithelial proliferative lesions -- Columnar cell lesions -- Mucocele-like lesions -- Calcification in benign lesions -- Non-epithelial lesions -- Male breast lesions -- Risk assessment in benign breast lesions
Summary
The second edition of this book has been extensively revised and updated. There has been a lot of scientific advances in the radiology, pathology and risk assessment of benign breast lesions since the publication of the first edition. The first edition concentrated on screen-detected lesions, which has been rectified. New symptomatic and screen-detected lesions are discussed in the second edition and include: mastitis and breast abscess, idiopathic granulomatous mastitis, diabetic mastopathy, phyllodes tumour, gynaecomastia and pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia. The chapters on columnar ce