Revised to reflect the current cardiothoracic radiology curriculum for diagnostic radiology residency, Chest Radiology provides the essential knowledge needed to interpret chest radiographs and CT scans.

This edition includes nearly 800 new images obtained with state-of-the-art technology and a new chapter on cardiac imaging.

A new patterns of lung disease section provides a one-stop guide to recognizing and understanding findings seen on thin-section CT. This edition also includes:

• the new classification of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
• current techniques for evaluating solitary pulmonary nodules
• an algorithm for managing incidental nodules seen on chest CT
• the new World Health Organization classification of lung tumors
• numerous new cases in the self-assessment chapter

Contents

1. Normal Anatomy of the Chest
2. Signs and Patterns of Lung Disease
3. Interstitial Lung Disease
4. Alveolar Lung Disease
5. Monitoring and Support Devices: "Tubes and Lines"
6. Mediastinal Masses
7. Solitary and Multiple Pulmonary Nodules
8. Chest Trauma
9. Pleura, Chest Wall and Diaphragm
10. Upper Lung Disease, Infection and Immunity
11. Atelectasis
12. Peripheral Lung Disease
13. Airways
14. Unilateral Hyperlucent Hemithorax
15. Neoplasms of the Lung
16. Congenital Lung Disease
17. Pulmonary Vasculature Disease
18. Congenital and Acquired Cardiac Disease
19. Thoracic Aorta
20. Self-Assessment

Index

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