Breast & Gynecological Diseases

This book is primarily a symptom-based guide to Breast and Gynecologic Imaging. Most clinical publications focus on a specific pathology such as "Imaging and/or management of ovarian cancer," but in clinical practice, patients do not present with a diagnosis. Physicians are presented with clinical symptoms, and appropriate use of imaging after a clinical assessment is critical from the point of view of effective intervention to treat a patient. CMS now mandates a clinical decision support system to justify imaging. This is based on making use of appropriate modalities for specific clinical problems that are deemed so by professional society guidelines. In an era of emphasis on cost effective, high quality health care delivery, it is critical for clinicians in training and practice to have a resource that outlines scientifically sound and professional society endorsed criteria for appropriate work up of patients’ symptoms. 

This book applies this symptom-based approach to women’s health. Authors are focused on providing a scientifically proven resource to gynecologists, obstetricians, radiologists and internists involved in the management of common symptoms affecting women. Each chapter is based on a common breast or gynecological problem and how patients are triaged for imaging. The implications of the findings and the most appropriate management of the patient are also presented. The text focuses on providing the most effective methods currently available to investigate commonly encountered symptoms in women’s health. In addition, there are chapters that outline rationale of screening for breast cancer in women with an average risk and those with an elevated risk for breast cancer as well as a clinician guide to understanding multidisciplinary approach to the Breast cancer patient.

This is an ideal guide for gynecologists, obstetricians, radiologists, and internists working in women’s health.

Mahesh Shetty, MD, FRCR, FACR, FAIUM is a Clinical Professor of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine. He has been practicing in the Texas Medical Center since 1995 after completion of a Fellowship in MRI and Abdominal Imaging at the University of Chicago and a Fellowship in Body Imaging at Baylor College of Medicine. He also holds the distinction of being granted fellowship in the American College of Radiology, Society of Breast Imaging and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. Dr Shetty is currently in private practice and is the Managing Director of The Breast and Imaging Center, a Women’s Imaging Network for the Texas Gulf coast division of the Privia Medical Group.

Dr. Shetty’s clinical expertise is in Breast and Gynecological Imaging. He is extensively published in his area of expertise and has authored two textbooks, four special issue journals, book chapters and clinical publications. He has served as the Director of Mammography at Ben-Taub General Hospital and more recently at the Woman’s Hospital of Texas, and is past president of the Houston Radiological Society and an examiner in Mammography for the American Board of Radiology. He is a recognized International Visiting Professor of the Radiological Society of North America and has lectured extensively in Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America.