Grainger and Allison's Diagnostic Radiology. The Chest and Cardiovascular System

Description

The 17 chapters in this book have been selected from the contents of the Chest and Cardiovascular System 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

Techniques in Thoracic Imaging,
Arjun Nair • Zelena A. Aziz • David M. Hansell

The Normal Chest,
Simon P.G. Padley • Katharina Marten • Christoph Engelke

The Chest Wall, Pleura, Diaphragm and Intervention
Johny A. Verschakelen • Fergus Gleeson

The Mediastinum, Including the Pericardium,
Nadeem Parkar • Cylen Javidan-Nejad • Sanjeev Bhalla • Simon P.G. Padley

Pulmonary Infection in Adults,
Tomás Franquet

Airway Disease and Chronic Airway Obstruction,
Philippe A. Grenier • Catherine Beigelman-Aubry

Pulmonary Lobar Collapse: Essential Considerations,
Susan J. Copley

Pulmonary Neoplasms,
Simon Padley • Olga Lazoura

High-Resolution Computed Tomography of Interstitial and Occupational Lung Disease,
Nicola Sverzellati • Zelena A. Aziz • David M. Hansell

Thoracic Trauma and Related Topics,
John H. Reynolds • Hefin Jones

Airspace Diseases,
Nicola Sverzellati • Sujal R. Desai

Cardiac Anatomy and Imaging Congenital Heart Disease: General Principles and Imaging,
Andrew M. Taylor • Michael A. Quail

Non-ischaemic Acquired Heart Disease,
Luigi Natale • Agostino Meduri

Ischaemic Heart Disease,
Jan Bogaert

Pulmonary Circulation and Pulmonary Thromboembolism,
Ieneke J.C. Hartmann • Cornelia M. Schaefer-Prokop

The Thoracic Aorta: Diagnostic Aspects,
Rossella Fattori • Luigi

Authors

By Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Hannover School of Medicine, Germany 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