Abdominal Imaging: The Core Requisites

Description

Taking a high-yield, “just the essentials” approach, Abdominal Imaging: The Core Requisites helps you establish a foundational understanding of both gastrointestinal and genitourinary imaging during rotations, prepare for the core and certifying exams, and refresh your knowledge of key concepts. This new title solves the “information overload” problem often faced by trainee and practicing radiologists by emphasizing the essential knowledge you need in an easy-to-ready hybrid format of traditional text and bullet points.

Key Features

• Emphasizes a “just the essentials” approach to foundational abdominal imaging content presented in an easy-to-read, quick reference format, with templated content that includes numerous outlines, tables, pearls, boxed material, and bulleted text for easy reading and efficient recall.
• Helps you build and solidify core knowledge to prepare you for clinical practice with critical, up-to-date information on GI/GU topics, including relevant anatomy, lesion characterization, tumor staging, indication-based protocols and techniques, and more.
• Prioritizes high-yield topics and explains key information to help you efficiently and effectively prepare for board exams.
• Contains problem-based and disease-focused chapters such as right upper quadrant pain, chronic liver disease, colorectal cancer and screening, postoperative imaging, and abdominal/pelvic trauma.
• Includes reporting tips and recommendations with sample structured reports.
• Features more than 500 high-quality images spanning a variety of critical abdominal and pelvic disease processes, including discussions of advanced imaging techniques such as multiparametric MRI, dual energy CT, and elastography.
• Published as part of the newly reimagined Core Requisites series, an update to the popular Requisites series for today’s busy clinician.
• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Table of Contents

1. Section 1. Gastrointestinal Tract
2. Abdominal Radiography
3. GI Fluoroscopy
4. Gastric Wall Thickening/Masses
5. Hollow Viscus Perforation
6. Small Bowel Obstruction
7. Bowel Wall Thickening
8. Imaging of the Postoperative Bowel
9. Mesenteric Ischemia
10. Colorectal Cancer and Screening
11. RUQ Pain
12. RLQ Pain
13. Pancreatitis
14. Solid Pancreatic Masses
15. Cystic Pancreatic Lesions
16. Section 2. Hepatobiliary
17. Chronic Liver Disease
18. Imaging of the Cirrhotic Liver
19. Benign Focal Liver Lesions
20. Cholecystitis
21. Jaundice
22. Section 3. Lymphatic System
23. Splenomegaly/Splenic Lesions
24. Lymphadenopathy
25. Section 4. Genitourinary
26. Urolithiasis
27. Cystic Renal Masses
28. Solid Renal Lesions
29. Diffuse Renal Parenchymal Disorders
30. Urinary Tract Obstruction
31. Urothelial Lesions
32. Adrenal Gland Enlargement and Nodules
33. Section 5. Reproductive System
34. Prostate Imaging
35. Testicular Lesions
36. Endometrial/Junctinonal Zone Thickening
37. Focal Uterine Lesions
38. Cystic Adnexal Lesions
39. Solid Adnexal Lesions
40. Mullerian Abnormalities
41. Pelvic Floor Disease
42. Section 6. Miscellaneous
43. Postoperative Imaging
44. Abdominal/Pelvic Trauma
45. Pitfalls

Authors Biography

Joseph R. Grajo; Dushyant V Sahani, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Radiologist, Abdominal Imaging & Interventional Radiology, Director, CT Imaging Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Massachusetts; Anthony E Samir, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Radiologist, Abdominal Imaging & Interventional Radiology; Co-Director, MGH/MIT Center for Ultrasound Research & Translation and Associate Director of Ultrasound Imaging Services, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts