Main 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,

Tomas 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