Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics (With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access)

By William Herring

Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics, 2nd Edition, is an image-filled, practical, and clinical introduction to this integral part of the diagnostic process. William Herring, MD, a skilled radiology teacher, masterfully covers everything you need to know to effectively interpret medical images. Learn the latest on ultrasound, MRI, CT, and more, in a time-friendly format with brief, bulleted text and abundant high-quality images. Then ensure your mastery of the material with additional online content, bonus images, and self-assessment exercises at www.studentconsult.com.

Identify a wide range of common and uncommon conditions based upon their imaging findings.

Quickly grasp the fundamentals you need to know through easy-access bulleted text and more than 700 images.

Arrive at diagnoses by following a pattern recognition approach, and logically overcome difficult diagnostic challenges with the aid of decision trees.

Learn from the best, as Dr. Herring is both a skilled radiology teacher and the host of his own specialty website, www.learningradiology.com. Easily master the fundamental principles of MRI with new and updated coverage of bone density abnormalities, intracranial pathology, and joint disease; ultrasound in a chapter on tumors, tics, and ulcers; and CT in an expanded section called Mediastinal and Lung Masses, and more.

Ensure your mastery of the material with full-text online access plus additional online content on nuclear medicine and recognizing heart disease from frontal chest radiography, bonus images, and self-assessment exercises at www.studentconsult.com.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323074448
• ISBN13: 9780323074445
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"