Breast Imaging (Core Curriculum)

Rating:
Summary: Good resident textbook
Review: This is a good textbook for the radiology resident. This book is a significant improvement over the previous breast imaging companion. These include:

1. Switch from outline format to prose. Outline format is useful for review, but does not lend itself well to a straight read-through. This book was designed to be read.
2. A lot more images, both improved in quality and format. Many cases are presented in a logical fashion. Screen-diagnostic-ultrasound-biopsy workups are presented multiple times. This is really a big improvement over the 1-2 image "show me" style, since mammo often requires these types of workups. The ultrasound images are also excellent.

The aspects I would like to see improved on would be a section devoted to common management and diagnostic problems in mammo. There is some discussion of management issues scattered throughout the text, but I think this deserves its own section since it plays such a large part in mammo.

I would give this text 4 stars overall, but for the price I'll bump it up to 5 stars.