A-Z of Chest Radiology
A-Z of Chest Radiology
Mangerira Uthappa, Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Rakesh Misra, Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Out of Print
A-Z of Chest Radiology provides a comprehensive, concise, easily accessible radiological guide to the imaging of acute and chronic chest conditions. Organised in A-Z format by disorder, each entry gives easy access to the key clinical features of a disorder. An introductory chapter guides the reader in how to review chest X-ray's accurately. This is followed by a detailed discussion of over 60 chest disorders, listing characteristics, clinical features, radiological features and management. Each disorder is highly illustrated to aid diagnosis; the management advice is concise and practical. A-Z of Chest Radiology is an invaluable quick pocket reference for the busy clinician as well as an aide memoir for revision in higher exams in both medicine and radiology.
- Pictorial guide to chest x-ray interpretation allows reader to carefully and confidently review any chest x-ray
- Concise but comprehensive text layout means that the text becomes more memorable, allowing the reader to learn and reference more easily
- Thorough review of the aetiology, clinical presentation, imaging features, differential diagnoses and patient management for each condition
Reviews & endorsements
'It is well written for the target audience and offers concise information,…With detail of patient management and differential diagnosis, this text would be a useful addition to the more substantial reference books found with an imaging department.' Synergy
Product details
October 2007Adobe eBook Reader
9780511332289
0 pages
0kg
175 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Fundamentals of CXR Interpretation: 'The basics': quality assessment
- Patient dependant factors
- Review of important anatomy
- Lungs and pleura
- Diaphragms
- Bones and soft tissues
- A brief look at the lateral CXR
- Part II. - A-Z Chest Radiology: Abscess
- Achalasia
- Alveolar microlithiasis
- Aneurysm of the pulmonary artery
- Aortic arch aneurysm
- Aortic rupture
- Asbestos plaques
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Bochdalek hernia
- Bronchocele
- Calcified granulomata
- Carcinoma
- Cardiac aneurysm
- Chronic obstructive airways disease
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Collapsed lung
- Consolidated lung
- Diaphragmatic hernia - acquired
- Diaphragmatic hernia - congenital
- Embolic disease
- Emphasematous bulla
- Extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- Flail chest
- Foreign body - inhaled
- Foreign body - swallowed
- Foregut duplication cyst
- Goitre
- Haemothorax
- Heart failure
- Hiatus hernia
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- Incorrectly cited central venous line
- Kartagener syndrome
- Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
- Lymphoma
- Metastases
- Mastectomy
- Mesothelioma
- Macleod's syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis
- Neuroenteric cyst
- Pancoast tumour
- Pectus excavatum
- Pericardial cyst
- Pleural mass
- Pleural effusion
- Pneumoconiosis
- Pneumoperitoneum
- Pneumothorax
- Poland's syndrome
- Post lobectomy/post pneumonectomy
- Progressive massive fibrosis
- Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension
- Sarcoidosis
- Silicosis
- Subphrenic abscess
- Thoracoplasty
- Tuberculosis
- Thymus - normal
- Thymus - malignant thymoma
- Varicella pneumonia
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- Westermark's sign.
