Chest radiology
Subtitle: the essentials
By: Jannette Collins, Eric J. Stern.
Contributors: Stern, Eric J.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780781763141
Subjects: Chest -- Radiography; Chest -- Diseases -- Diagnosis; Radiography, Thoracic -- methods; Lung Diseases -- radiography; Thoracic Diseases -- radiography
Description: Provides information for residents during chest radiology rotation and can be used as a review for oral examinations. Included are extensive halftone illustrations. A 'pattern approach,' using mnemonics as a learning tool, is followed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Normal anatomy of the chest; title: Signs and patterns of lung disease; title: Interstitial lung disease; title: Alveolar lung disease; title: Monitoring and support devices, tubes and lines; title: Mediastinal masses; title: Solitary and multiple pulmonary nodules; title: Chest trauma; title: Pleura, chest wall and diaphragm; title: Upper lung disease, infection and immunity; title: Atelectasis; title: Peripheral lung disease; title: Airways; title: Unilateral hyperlucent hemithorax; title: Neoplasms of the lung; title: Congenital lung disease; title: Pulmonary vasculature disease; title: Congenital and acquired cardiac disease; title: Thoracic aorta; title: Self-assessment.