Variants and Pitfalls in Body Imaging, Second edition is the key to identifying features on images that can impede accurate diagnosis, particularly normal anatomic variants and technical artifacts that mimic pathology.

Covering the abdomen, pelvis, and thorax and all current imaging modalities, this sourcebook explains how to differentiate normal anatomic variants, technical artifacts, and other diagnostic pitfalls from pathologic conditions.

Organized by site for easy reference, the book covers CT, MRI, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine. This edition includes advanced technologies such as multidetector CT scanning for cardiovascular imaging, CT and MR enterography for enterocolitis, virtual colonoscopy, CT and MR urography, prostate and breast MR imaging, and PET/CT scanning. The authors walk the reader through specific body areas, describing problems, solutions, and relevant anatomy.

Contents

Section I: The Thorax

1. The Lungs and the Pleura: High-Resolution and Conventional CT
2. Intrathoracic Vessels and the Pericardium
3. Heart and the Coronary Arteries
4. The Diaphragm

Section II: Abdominal and Gastrointestinal

5. Anatomic Variants and Congenital Anomalies of the Liver
6. Multidetector CT Scanning of the Liver
7. Mr Imaging of the Liver
8. Liver Ultrasound
9. CT and Ultrasound of the Gallbladder and the Bile Ducts
10. The Pancreas
11. Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP)
12. The Spleen
13. The Gastrointestinal Tract: CT
14. CT Enterography and CT Enteroclysis
15. CT Colonography (Virtual Colonoscopy)
16. MR Enterography and MR Enteroclysis
17. The Peritoneum, Retroperitoneum, and Their Fascial Planes
18. Abdominal and Pelvic Vessels
19. Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Protocols, Pitfalls, and Artifacts in the Abdomen and Pelvis

Section III: Geritourinary and Women's Imaging

20. The Adrenal Glands
21. CT and MRI of the Kidneys
22. Renal Ultrasound
23. CT and MR Urography
24. the Bladder, Prostate and the Testis
25. Prostate MRI
26. The Female Pelvis
27. Obstetrical Ultrasound
28. Fetal MRI
29. MRI of the Breast
30. Breast Sonography

Section IV: Changes after Surgery or Radiation

31. The Lungs: Postoperative and Postradiation Changes
32. Abdomen and Pelvis: Changes on CT as a Result of Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Interventional Procedures

Section V: Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

33. PET and PET-CT Scanning of the Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis

Section VI: Addominal and Pelvic Bones and Soft Tissue

34. Musculoskeletal System in the Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis
35. The Thoracoabdominal and Pelvic Musculoskeleton in Pediatrics

Section VII: Physical Principles of Artifacts

36. Physical Principles of MR Imaging Artifacts
37. Physical Principles of CT Imaging Artifacts
38. Physical Principles and Clinical Impacts of Ultrasound Artifacts

Index

click here to see books of related interest

ORDER NOW Variants and Pitfalls in Body Imaging Thoracic, Abdominal and Women's Imaging Second edition edited by Ali Shirkhoda 2011 • 1,016 pages • $288.00 + shipping Texas residents please add 6.75 % sales tax