Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics, 2nd Edition, is an image-filled, practical, and clinical introduction to this integral part of the diagnostic process. William Herring, MD, a skilled radiology teacher, masterfully covers everything you need to know to effectively interpret medical images. Learn the latest on ultrasound, MRI, CT, and more, in a time-friendly format with brief, bulleted text and abundant high-quality images. Then ensure your mastery of the material with additional online content, bonus images, and self-assessment exercises at www.studentconsult.com.
Book Features
About the Author
William Herring, MD, Vice-Chairman, and Program Director, Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Contents
1. Recognizing Anything
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Book Features
- Identify a wide range of common and uncommon conditions based upon their imaging findings.
- Quickly grasp the fundamentals you need to know through easy-access bulleted text and more than 700 images.
- Arrive at diagnoses by following a pattern recognition approach, and logically overcome difficult diagnostic challenges with the aid of decision trees.
- Learn from the best, as Dr. Herring is both a skilled radiology teacher and the host of his own specialty website, www.learningradiology.com.
- Easily master the fundamental principles of MRI, ultrasound, and CT with new chapters that cover principles of each modality and the recognition of normal and abnormal findings.
About the Author
William Herring, MD, Vice-Chairman, and Program Director, Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA.
1. Recognizing Anything
- The "colorful" world of radiology
- A systematic approach the "truth" about systems
- Terminology
- Conventions used in this book
- Penetration
- Inspiration
- Rotation
- Magnification
- Angulation
- The lateral chest
- The cardiothoracic ratio
- Extracardiac causes of apparent cardiac enlargement
- Effect of projection and inspiration on perception of heart size
- Recognizing cardiomegaly in infants
- Normal lung markings
- Characteristics of airspace disease
- Some causes of airspace disease
- Characteristics of interstitial lung disease
- Some causes of interstitial lung disease
- Atelectasis of the entire lung
- Massive pleural effusion
- Pneumonia of an entire lung
- Post-pneumonectomy
- What is atelectasis?
- Signs of atelectasis
- Types of atelectasis
- Patterns of collapse in lobar atelectasis
- How atelectasis resolves
- Normal anatomy and physiology of the pleural space
- Causes of pleural effusions
- Types of pleural effusions
- Recognizing the different appearances of pleural effusions
- Side-specificity of pleural effusions
- General considerations
- Recognizing pneumonia general characteristics
- Patterns of pneumonia
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Localizing pneumonia
- How pneumonia resolves
- Normal anatomy
- Recognizing a pneumothorax
- Recognizing the pitfalls in overdiagnosing a pneumothorax
- Types of pneumothoraces
- Causes of a pneumothorax
- Other ways to diagnose a pneumothorax
- Pulmonary interstitial edema (PIE)
- Recognizing pneumomediastinum
- Recognizing pneumopericardium
- Recognizing subcutaneous emphysema
- Heart size
- Cardiac contours ascending aorta
- Cardiac contours "double density" of left atrial enlargement
- Cardiac contours right atrium
- Cardiac contours aortic knob
- Cardiac contours main pulmonary artery
- Cardiac contours concavity for left atrium
- Cardiac contours left ventricle
- Cardiac contours descending aorta
- The pulmonary vasculature normal
- The pulmonary vasculaturepulmonary venous hypertension
- The pulmonary vasculature pulmonary arterial hypertenison
- The pulmonary vasculature increased flow to the lungs
- The pulmonary vasculature decreased flow to the lungs
- The ABCs of heart disease system
- A is the left atrium enlarged?
- B is the main pulmonary artery big or bulbous?
- C is the main pulmonary artery segment concave?
- D is the heart a dilated or delta-shaped heart
- Other facts
- Congestive heart failure general considerations
- Pulmonary interstitial edema
- Pulmonary alveolar edema
- Non-cardiogenic alveolar edema general considerations
- Differentiating cardiac from non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema
- Endotracheal tubes and tracheostomies
- Intravascular catheters
- Pleural drainage tubes (chest tubes, thoracotomy tubes)
- Cardiac devices pacemakers, AICD, IABP
- GI tubes and lines nasogastric tubes, feeding tubes
- Mediastinal masses
- Anterior mediastinum
- Middle mediastinal masses
- Aortic aneurysms
- Posterior mediastinal masses
- Solitary nodule/mass in the lung
- Bronchogenic carcinoma
- Metastatic neoplasms in the lung
- Introduction
- Normal chest CT anatomy
- Five-vessel level
- Aortic arch level
- Aorto-pulmonary window level
- Main pulmonary artery level
- High cardiac level
- Low cardiac level
- The fissures
- Selected abnormalities visible on chest CT scans
- Pulmonary thromboembolic disease
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Blebs and bulae, cysts and cavities
- Bronchiectasis
- Chest trauma
- Pericardial effusion
- Cardiac CT
- Recognizing the normal abdomen what to look for
- Recognizing the normal abdomen normal bowel gas pattern
- Recognizing the normal abdomen normal fluid levels
- Differentiating large from small bowel
- Acute abdominal series the views and what they show
- Recognizing the normal abdomen extraluminal air
- Recognizing the normal abdomen calcifications
- Recognizing the normal abdomen organomegaly
- Laws of the gut
- Functional ileus localized sentinal loops
- Functional ileus generalized adynamic ileus
- Mechanical obstruction small bowel obstruction (SBO)
- Mechanical obstruction large bowel obstruction (LBO)
- Intestinal psuedo-obstruction (Ogilvie's syndrome)
- Signs of free intraperitoneal air
- Air beneath the diaphragm
- Visualization of both sides of the bowel wall
- Visualization of the falciform ligament
- Causes of free air
- Signs of extraperitoneal air (retroperitoneal air)
- Causes of extraperitoneal air
- Signs of air in the bowel wall
- Causes and significance of air in the bowel wall
- Signs of air in the biliary system
- Causes of air in the biliary system
- Patterns of calcification
- Rimlike calcification
- Linear or track-like calcification
- Lamellar or laminar calcification
- Cloudlike, amorphous, or "popcorn" calcification
- Location of calcification
- Recognizing abnormalities of the GI tract from top to bottom
- Esophagus
- Hiatal hernia and gastroesophageal reflux (GERD)
- Stomach and duodenum
- Small bowel
- Large bowel
- Terminology
- Common principles for all gastrointestinal barium studies
- General considerations
- Liver
- Biliary system
- Spleen
- Kidneys
- Pancreas
- Small and large bowel
- Female pelvis
- Urinary bladder
- Abdominal aortic aneurysms
- Adenopathy
- Normal bone anatomy
- The effect of bone physiology on bone anatomy
- Recognizing a generalized increase in bone density
- Recognizing a focal increase in bone density
- Recognizing a generalized decrease in bone density
- Recognizing a focal decrease in bone density
- Pathologic fractures
- Recognizing an acute fracture
- Recognizing dislocations and subluxations
- Describing fractures
- Avulsion fractures
- Salter-Harris fractures epiphyseal plate fractures in children
- Stress fractures
- Common fracture
Product Details
- Paperback: 333 pages
- Publisher: Saunders; 2 edition (April 14, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0323074448
- ISBN-13: 978-0323074445
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches