- Docente: Daniela Severi
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 9079)
Learning outcomes
The student acquires the skills in breast surgery, CESM, tomosynthesis, breast CT, sentinel lymphnode.
Course contents
History of breast cancer.
Clinical signs to report in the medical history
Mammography screening and evolution of prevention strategies
Familial inheritance risk factors in breast cancer
Liquid Biopsies
Organizational Analysis of a Breast Unit.
Second Diagnostic Levels (targeted compressions and direct enlargement techniques)
Special Screenings.
Galactography
Interventional: breast microbiopsy techniques with the different systems currently in use
Breast MRI
ROLL (localization of the occult lesion)
Sentinel lymph node study (with radiotracer and indocyanine green dyes)
Magnetic location of the sentinel lymph node
Operating room: localization of the tumor lesion.
Orientation and radiography of the operating pieces and anatomical pieces.
Technological evolution and new Technologies in breast diagnostics: MRI dedicated to the breast. Tomosynthesis.
CESM Mammography with MDC
Mammography with positron emission (PEM)
HIFU
Automated ultrasound systems
Breast Tc with Cone Beam technology
Dynamic Optical Breast Imaging
Teaching methods
Interactive frontal lessons.
Presentations of technical cases in various breast techniques and discussion on imaging quality.
Case report: analysis and discussion
Practical exercises in the mammography interventional room
Assessment methods
The final exam will consist of a written test in the form multiple choices and open questions and a practical assessment where the student will demonstrate the skills acquired in an interventional procedure with a microbiopsy system applied to a stereotaxis table.
Office hours
See the website of Daniela Severi