Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound

"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. This title enables successful and clear interpretation of radiographs and ultrasonograms. It offers clearly sequenced text arrangement from the identification of the radiographic or sonographic abnormalities to a list of subsequent considerations for each sign. It prioritizes different clinical findings to tailor further diagnostic tests or therapeutic interventions. It takes imaging abnormalities from the descriptive to the interpretative. This title features: colour throughout that enhances user-friendliness; many new conditions; extra illustrations that show techniques and normal anatomy; additional information on techniques, normal appearance and disease processes; and, Expanded Further Reading sections. This book is intended for all users of small animal diagnostic imaging, from radiologists throu 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.

Table of 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

Ruth Dennis, MA, VetMB, DVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, UK; Robert M. Kirberger, BVSc, MMedVet(Rad), DipECVDI, Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Frances Barr, MA, VetMB, PhD, DVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS, School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and Robert H. Wrigley, BVSc, MS, DVR, DipACVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS, University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Sydney, Australia