Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology.

Beginning with an introduction to equipment, the next chapters discuss the basic principles of ultrasound and its use in the different trimesters of pregnancy.

The following chapters explain the importance of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool describing its use for placenta evaluation, amniotic fluid assessment, measuring cervical length and in multiple pregnancy.

The final chapters cover ultrasound-guided foetal invasive procedures, Doppler, 3D ultrasound, and ultrasound in reproductive medicine.

This practical guide is further enhanced by more than 350 ultrasound images, diagrams and tables to assist learning.

Key points

Comprehensive guide to ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology
Emphasises use of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool
Explains use of ultrasound in different trimesters of pregnancy
Highly illustrated with more than 350 ultrasound images, diagrams and tables

Contents:

Back to Basics
Know Your Machine
Early Pregnancy Scan: Normal and Abnormal
First Trimester Anomaly Scan
Midtrimester Fetal Anomaly Scan
Common Second Trimester Fetal Malformations
Fetal Biometry
Role of Ultrasound for Evaluation of Placenta and its Pathologies
Role of Ultrasound for Amniotic Fluid Assessment and Related Abnormalities
Doppler in Fetal Growth Restriction
Assessment and Monitoring of Cervical Length in Prelabor and Labor
Multiple Pregnancy
Ultrasound-Guided Fetal Invasive Procedures
ABCs of Doppler
Normal Female Reproductive Sonoanatomy
Ultrasound in Uterine Pathologies
Three-Dimensional Ultrasound in Uterine Pathologies
Pathology of Ovary
Ultrasound Evaluation of Adnexa
Ultrasound and Reproductive Medicine

Index