DESCRIPTION:
The Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: Techniques and Differential Diagnoses provides a user-friendly reference for a wide range of radiographic and ultrasonographic findings in dogs and cats.
Key features:
- Enables successful and clear interpretation of radiographs and ultrasonograms
- Offers clearly sequenced text arrangement from the identification of the radiographic or sonographic abnormalities to a list of subsequent considerations for each sign
- Prioritizes different clinical findings to tailor further diagnostic tests or therapeutic interventions
- Takes imaging abnormalities from the descriptive to the interpretative
New to this edition:
- Colour throughout enhances user-friendliness
- Many new conditions
- Extra illustrations show techniques and normal anatomy
- Additional information on techniques, normal appearance and disease processes
- Expanded Further Reading sections
This book is intended for all users of small animal diagnostic imaging, from radiologists through to general practitioners to veterinary students, and will be an invaluable supplement to existing references in the subject.
CONTENTS:
1. Skeletal system: general
2. Joints
3. Appendicular skeleton
4. Head and neck
5. Spine
6. Lower respiratory tract
7. Cardiovascular system
8. Other thoracic structures - pleural cavity, mediastinum, thoracic oesophagus, thoracic wall
9. Other abdominal structures - abdominal wall, peritoneal and retroperitoneal cavities, parenchymal organs
10. Gastrointestinal tract
11. Urogenital tract
12. Soft tissues
Appendices:
Radiographic faults
Ultrasound terminology and artefacts
Geographic distributions of diseases
