Pearls and Pitfalls in Thoracic Imaging - Variants and Other Difficult Diagnoses (Relié)

How often have you been confronted with an image on a thoracic CT exam where you knew it didn't look "normal," but you weren't 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 an abnormality that I need to be concerned about ? Is this set of findings specific for an uncommon disease, and if so what is the diagnosis ? Is this set of findings strongly suggestive of a diagnosis, and what additional imaging test will allow me to be confident in that diagnosis ? Could the "abnormality" be due to an artifact mimicking disease, and how can ? prove that ? To reach a diagnosis once a potential abnormality is identified, the reader simply locates the region of the abnormality (mediastinum, airway, pulmonary artery, etc.), then refers to the images in that section of the book to match the finding.
once a matching image is found, the diagnosis is confirmed. written by leading thoracic radiologists with concise, image-rich descriptions, Pearls and Pitfalls in Thoracic Imaging enables you either to identify normal variants that you can ignore, or to confirm pathognomonic images of rare diseases to make that one in a million diagnosis.