Chest Radiology: Plain Film Patterns and Differential Diagnosis

by James C. Reed and James F. Daniel

Book Overview

This updated and expanded edition continues to emphasize plain film patterns in the differential diagnosis of chest disease. Each chapter maintains a uniform format, starting with a quiz to stimulate reader interest, followed by informative charts, a thoughtful and incisive discussion of the topic and a summary listing of salient diagnostic features.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815171226
• ISBN13: 9780815171225
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Very good and systematic approach

I have read Felson's, Requisites, and Reed and I believe Reed to be the best of the bunch. It approaches chest interpretation in a systematic way and provides good differnetials with sound, yet short explainations. I recommend it in your library.

A good addition to your Chest radiology collection

A very nice systematic approach to chest radiology with good lists of differential diagnosis for many radiographic patterns. Also has some decent questions at the beginning of each chapter. However, the quality of the pictures could definitly be improved as some are very low resolution and make it difficult to find the disease process they are discussing. Should be used as an supplement to another chest radiology book.

Worth Memorising...

As a radiologist,I've rarely seen books that make the understanding of complicated points easier. This is an excellent text for the beginners in chest radiology to get a sense of approach to the problems. Although the classifications such as "Diffuse Coalescent" or "Multifocal Ill Defined Densities" may have low applicability in clinical practice, I still think that there seems no other way to approach to the enigma. One more problem is the difficulty to collect the knowledge about a spesific disease entity from different chapters as the book is based on differential diagnosis. Anyway, the book is worth memorising so there seems to be no problem. Thanks to Dr. Reed and to people who make our paths clean...