Main description:

The new Burgener: Improve your interpretation skills with this bestselling comprehensive reference to interpreting abnormal CT findings

Differential Diagnosis in Computed Tomography, 2nd edition, is an invaluable reference aid in the evaluation of CT images to help confidently gain a general diagnostic impression and a reasonable differential diagnosis. In contrast to disease-oriented radiology texts, this book is organized by CT findings, enabling the reader to quickly match the appropriate differential diagnosis to CT results.

Special features of the second edition:

Continuation of the successful Burgener concept: Comprehensive tables describe the imaging patterns of the various diseases that may present on CT, along with other characteristically associated imaging findings and pertinent physiopathologic, pathologic, and clinical data
Over 2,000 detailed, high-quality images demonstrating a wide range of common and uncommon CT findings
Chapters organized according to anatomic regions, from the brain to the pelvis and the musculoskeletal system, with new chapters on meningeal and calvarian lesions and on trauma
Updated and revised sections reflecting the latest advances in CT technology and indications, including accurate staging of intra-articular and spinal fractures and evaluation of vascular diseases
Extensive index systematically cross-references diseases and CT findings for optimal access to information

Recognizing the central role that CT plays in the field of modern medical imaging, this book is essential for physicians who want to strengthen their diagnostic acumen and CT interpretation skills: radiologists in practice; residents preparing for board exams; and any other physician charged with understanding and interpreting CT images.

Contents:

I Intracranial Lesions

1 Brain and Extra-axial Lesions

2 Ventricles and Cisterns

3 Lesions Involving the Meninges and Skull

4 Vascular Lesions

II Head and Neck

5 Skull Base and Temporal Bone

6 Orbit and Globe

7 Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses

8 Suprahyoid Neck

9 Infrahyoid Neck

III Spine

10 Computed Tomography of Spinal Abnormalities

IV Musculoskeletal System

11 Soft Tissue Disease

12 Joint Disease

13 Generalized Bone Disease

14 Localized Bone Disease

15 Trauma and Fractures

V Thorax

16 Lungs

17 Pleura, Chest Wall, and Diaphragm

18 Heart and Mediastinum

VI Abdomen and Pelvis

19 Liver

20 Biliary System

21 Spleen

22 Pancreas

23 Abdominal Wall

24 Gastrointestinal Tract

25 Peritoneum and Mesentery

26 Retroperitoneum

27 Kidneys

28 Adrenal Glands

29 Pelvis