This state-of-the-art reference is your visual guide to the diagnosis of the full spectrum of breast lesions seen in core biopsy specimens, including difficult and borderline pathology. Case-based presentations correlating radiologic and pathologic findings, help pathologists, radiologists, and surgeons gain a better understanding of the entire pathology process, thus greatly improving diagnostic accuracy and subsequent therapy.

Introduction and general considerations Basic Radiologic Considerations?A primer for the pathologist Pathology for Radiologists? Specimen handling, evaluation, and reporting Well circumscribed solid lesions Well circumscribed solid lesions with heterogeneous radiodensity Largely cystic lesions Partially solid, partially cystic lesions Well circumscribed solid malignancies Irregular densities Spiculated architectural distortion Architectural distortion Introduction to stereotactic core biopsies for calcifications Calcium oxalate crystals Linear high density calcifications Clustered low-density granular calcifications Linear and branching calcifications Miscellaneous unusual and rare lesions Complications and follow-up? after the core Postscript Index