72079 - II Level Diagnostic Brest Technique

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Imaging and Radiotherapy techniques (cod. 8486)

Course contents

Signs and history (history of breast cancer and clinical signs to indicate in history.) Programs of mammography screening. Organizational Analysis of a Breast Unit. Levels seconds Diagnostics (compressions and targeted technical magnifying direct) Special Screenings Galactography Interventional (techniques microbiopsy breast with the different systems currently in use) Breast MRI ROLL (locations radiotracer) study of the sentinel node (radiotracer and dyes green ICG) Operating Room (localization of the tumor lesion) Orientation and radiography of the surgical specimens and anatomical pieces. New Technologies in breast imaging: dedicated breast MRI. Tomosynthesis. CESM (mammography with contrast medium) Mammography optical fiber with positron emission mammography (PEM) Technology Photon Counting Technology HIFU.

Assessment methods

Final assessment consists of a written test and in the form of open questions, and a practical test which will incur an interventional procedure with a system microbiopsy applied to a stereotactic table.

Office hours

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