Abstract:
The world’s most respected specialists in the field, Thoracic Imaging: Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Radiology, Third edition brings you completely up to date with all you need to know for optimal imaging of the heart and lungs. This comprehensive title provides practical, authoritative guidance for the radiologic assessment and diagnosis of both congenital and acquired cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. A must-have reference for more than ten years, Thoracic Imaging is your one-stop source for current, accurate coverage of pulmonary infections, diffuse lung diseases, mediastinal masses, coronary artery CT, myocardial disease, pericardial disease, CT of ischemic heart disease and much more. -- Provided by publisher.
Description:
2992 pages, Illustrations, 23cm || Includes indexes & bibliographic references || CONTENTS: Contributors -- Preface -- SECTION ONE The Basics -- Lobar Anatomy, Air-space Consolidation, the Silhouette Sign, and Atelectasis -- The Normal Mediastinum -- The Pulmonary Hila -- SECTION TWO Neoplasms, Masses, and Focal Lung Abnormalities -- Lung Cancer and Bronchopulmonary Neoplasms -- Metastatic Tumor -- Lymphoma and Lymphoproliferative Disease -- The Mediastinum: Mediastinal Masses -- Congenital Lung Abnormalities and Pulmonary Vascular Malformations -- Solitary and Multiple Nodules, Masses, Cavities, and Cysts -- SECTION THREE Diffuse and Multifocal Lung Diseases -- Plain Film and Computed Tomographic Assessment of Diffuse Lung Disease -- Pulmonary Edema, the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and Radiology in the Intensive Care Unit -- Pulmonary Infections -- The Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias -- Collagen Vascular Diseases -- Sarcoidosis -- Allergic Lung Diseases: Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Eosinophilic Lung Disease -- Iatrogenic Lung Diseases: Drug-induced Lung Disease and Radiation Pneumonitis -- Pneumoconioses -- Pulmonary Vasculitis and Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage -- Diffuse Lung Disease Associated with Lipid: Exogenous Lipid Pneumonia and Alveolar Proteinosis -- Diffuse Lung Diseases Associated with Calcification -- SECTION FOUR Airway Abnormalities -- The Trachea -- Airway Disease: Bronchiectasis, Chronic Bronchitis, and Bronchiolitis -- SECTION FIVE COPD, Emphysema, and Cystic Lung Diseases -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Emphysema -- Diffuse Cystic Lung Diseases -- SECTION SIX Pleural Abnormalities -- The Pleura and Pleural Disease -- SECTION SEVEN Great Arteries -- Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease -- Pulmonary Hypertension -- CT and MRI of the Thoracic Aorta -- SECTION EIGHT Radiography of Heart Disease -- Radiography of Acquired Heart Disease -- Radiography of Congenital Heart Disease -- SECTION NINE Acquired Non-ischemic Heart Disease -- Valvular Heart Disease -- Myocardial Diseases -- Pericardial Diseases -- Cardiac and Paracardiac Masses -- SECTION TEN Congenital Heart Disease -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Congenital Heart Disease -- SECTION ELEVEN Ischemic Heart Disease -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Ischemic Heart Disease -- Computed Tomography of Coronary Arteries and Ischemic Heart Disease -- SECTION TWELVE Cardiac Arrhythmias -- Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias -- Index