Grainger and Allison's Diagnostic Radiology: Abdominal Imaging

Description

The 20 chapters in this book have been selected from the contents of the Abdominal Imaging section in Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology 6e. These chapters provide a succinct up-to-date overview of current imaging techniques and their clinical applications in daily practice and it is hoped that with this concise format the user will quickly grasp the fundamentals they need to know. Throughout these chapters, the relative merits of different imaging investigations are described, variations are discussed and recent imaging advances are detailed.

Contents

1. Current Status of Imaging of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Imaging Techniques and Radiation Issues,
   Iain D. Morrison • Patrick McLaughlin • Michael Maher
2. The Oesophagus,
   Edmund M. Godfrey • Alan H. Freeman
3. The Stomach,
   Dina F. Caroline • Chandra Dass • Omar Agosto
4. The Duodenum and Small Intestine,
   Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis • Panos Prassopoulos • Maria Daskalogiannaki • Patrick McLaughlin • Michael Maher
5. The Large Bowel,
   Stuart A. Taylor • Andrew Plumb
6. Imaging of the Peritoneum, Mesentery and Omentum,
   Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis • Panos Prassopoulos • Maria Daskalogiannaki
7. The Liver and Spleen,
   David J. Lomas • Lorenzo Mannelli
8. The Biliary System,
   Robert N. Gibson • Thomas Sutherland
9. The Pancreas,
   Wolfgang Schima • E. Jane Adam • Robert A. Morgan
10. Common Uroradiological Referrals: Haematuria, Loin Pain, Renal Failure and Infection,
    Owen J. O'Connor • Tarek El-Diasty • Mohamed Abou El-Ghar • Michael Maher
11. The Urinary Tract: Overview of Anatomy, Techniques and Radiation Issues,
    Owen J. O'Connor • Michael Maher
12. Renal Masses: Imaging and Biopsy,
    Giles Rottenberg • Zaid Viney
13. Renal Transplantation: Imaging,
    Giles Rottenberg • Allan C. Andi
14. Urothelial Cancer, Upper Tract and Lower Tract,
    Nigel C. Cowan • Richard H. Cohan
15. Prostate,
    Joyce G.R. Bomers • Leonardo Kayat Bittencourt • Geert Villeirs • Jelle O. Barentsz
16. Male Genitourinary Tract,
    Nadeem Shaida • Lol Berman
17. Gynaecological Cancer,
    Evis Sala • Susan Freeman • Susan M. Ascher • Hedvig Hricak
18. Benign Gynaecological Disease,
    Sue J. Barter • Fleur Kilburn-Toppin
19. Genitourinary Tract Trauma,
    Lisa A. Miller • Stuart E. Mirvis
20. Adrenal Imaging,
    Anju Sahdev • Rodney H. Reznek

Authors

By Michael Maher, MD,FRCSI, FRCR, FFR (RCSI), Professor of Radiology, University College Cork, Consultant Radiologist, Cork University Hospital and Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland and Adrian K. Dixon, MD, MD(Hon caus), FRCP, FRCR, FRCS, FFRRCSI(Hon), FRANZCR(Hon), FACR(Hon), FMedSci, Professor of Radiology, Department of Radiology, Addenbrooke's Hopsital University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK