Emergency Radiology offers a comprehensive review on the last development in the management and the treatment of acute and life-threatening conditions.

This book will help the clinician to understand the clinical problems and to select the methodological and technical options that will ensure prompt and effective response and correct interpretation of the clinical findings.

Emergency Radiology is richly illustrated in color and black/white throughout. It is a unique source of information for radiologists and other specialists including neuroradiologists, surgeons, cardiologists, angiologists and gastroenteologists.

Contents

I: Emergency Radiology: Role of Imaging

• Role of Imaging in the Management of Trauma Victims
• Role of 3D Imaging in the Emergency Room

II: Traumatic Injuries: Imaging and Intervention

• Hemostatic Arterial Embolization in Trauma Victims at Admission
• Imaging and Intervention in Post-traumatic Complications (Delayed Intervention)
• Imaging of Head Injuries
• Imaging of Facial Injuries
• Imaging of Spinal Injuries
• Imaging of Thoracic Injuries
• Vascular Injuries of the Thorax: Multi-Detector-Row CT and 3D Imaging
• Imaging of Abdominal and Pelvic Injuries
• Imaging and Intervention of Large Arterial Trauma
• Pelvic Fractures
• Traumatic Injuries: Imaging

III: Non-Traumatic Neurologic Emergencies: Imaging and Intervention

• Imaging of Cerebral Ischemia
• Neuroradiological Emergency Interventions

IV: Non-Traumatic Thoracic Emergencies: Imaging and Intervention

• Acute Chest Pain: Diagnostic Strategies
• CT Diagnosis of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
• CT Venography in an Integrated Diagnostic Strategy of Acute Pulmonary Embolism and Venous Thrombosis
• Imaging and Treatment of Thoracic Fluid and Gas Collections

V: Non-Traumatic Abdominal Emergencies: Imaging and Intervention

• Acute Abdominal Pain: Diagnostic Strategies
• Imaging of Acute Intestinal Obstruction
• Imaging and Intervention in Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage and Ischemia
• Imaging and Intervention in Sepsis
• Imaging and Intervention in Acute Biliary Conditions
• Imaging and Intervention in Acute Pancreatic Conditions
• Non-traumatic Uroradiological Emergencies

VI: Non-Traumatic Vascular Emergencies: Imaging and Intervention

• Imaging and Intervention in Acute Non-Traumatic Arterial Conditions
• Imaging and Intervention in Acute Venous Occlusion
• Management of Occluded Hemodialysis Shunts, Grafts, and Venous Access

VII: Imaging Pediatric Emergencies

• Pediatric Neurological Emergencies
• Thoracic Emergencies
• Non-traumatic Abdominal Emergencies

Index

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