[Mammography after breast preserving therapy and reconstruction. Experiences in routine practice].

In the last few years we have seen, in daily routine, many different methods of operation and their complications. We want to show several diagnostical difficulties. Between January 1995 and July 1996 we evaluated all our patients retrospectively.

[Change in the glandular bodies of the breast after hormone therapy. Observations from the radiologic viewpoint].

In the last few years we have recognized a clear change in the mammograms in women undergoing hormone replacement therapy. Not all of them reacted in the same way: 30% on 366 treated patients showed a distinct glandular hyperplasia. Some developed nodes like cysts or adenomas, others had an increase in calcification as a sign of epithelia proliferation, as verified by histological examination.

[Interval cancers of the breast in general practice--experiences in 10 years of observation].

Of 288 carcinomas, 51 carcinoma developed between two mammography controls during the last 10 years. These were classified according to time, growth, TNM Stage age and histological diagnosis. Various premonitary symptoms are reported which--after retrospective consideration--deserve attention before clinical and radiological manifestation and make short-term controls mandatory Scanning technique using highly sensitive X-ray films is an absolute "must" in present-day diagnostic procedures.

[Practical experiences with grid mammography in everyday practice].

A one-year experience with the soft tissue grid mammographic technique (Siemens) and film screen combinations (Kodak) in 2290 patients 1982 is analysed. A comparison of the quality of mammograms between conventional technique und soft tissue grid technique with film screen combinations (NMB + MA5 films, Kodak) is made. The optimal quality of grid mammograms and the less radiation dose, especially in large breasts, is achieved with the NMB film (Kodak).

[Treatment of malignant and premalignant diseases of the breast by subcutaneous mastectomy with simultaneous augmentation mammoplasty (author's transl)].

Among 6 patients with small intra-ductal carcinomas of the breast two had local recurrences of cancer following unilateral subcutaneous mastectomy. We therefore limit subcutaneous mastectomy to pre-cancerous conditions and then use a bilateral subcutaneous mastectomy with augmentation mammoplasty. Our methods and results in 28 cases are described.