Pearls and Pitfalls in Thoracic Imaging – Variants and Other Difficult Diagnoses

Citation

(2012), "Pearls and Pitfalls in Thoracic Imaging – Variants and Other Difficult Diagnoses", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 25 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2012.06225baa.015

Pearls and Pitfalls in Thoracic Imaging – Variants and Other Difficult Diagnoses

Pearls and Pitfalls in Thoracic Imaging – Variants and Other Difficult Diagnoses

Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 25, Issue 2

Edited by Thomas Hartman,Cambridge University Press,ISBN: 978-0-521-11907-8,2011,

Keywords: Diagnostic tools in healthcare, Thoracic imaging and diagnosis, Radiology management

How often have you been confronted with an image on a thoracic CT exam where you knew it did not look “normal”, but you were not sure whether it was “abnormal“ either? And if it is abnormal, is there a specific diagnosis you should be able to make directly off the images? Pearls and Pitfalls in Thoracic Imaging is your one-stop resource to answer questions such as: Is this a normal variant or a disease-related abnormality? Are these findings specific for an uncommon disease and if so what is the diagnosis? Is this set of findings strongly suggestive of a diagnosis? Which additional imaging test will allow me to be confident in that diagnosis? Could the “abnormality“ be due to an artifact mimicking disease? Written by leading thoracic radiologists and with concise, image-rich descriptions, Pearls and Pitfalls in Thoracic Imaging is an invaluable diagnostic tool for every radiologist.

Contents include:

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  Preface.

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  Airways.

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  Lung parenchyma.

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  Mediastinum.

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  Esophagus.

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  Aorta.

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  Vascular.

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  Pericardium.

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  Pleura.

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  Diaphragm.

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  Lymphatics.

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  PET and PET/CT.

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  Artifacts.