Effective medical imaging : a signs and symptoms approach
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Effective medical imaging : a signs and symptoms approach
Williams & Wilkins, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides the physician with a handy and accessible guide to the ordering of radiologic tests. The emphasis is on pursuing the most logical sequence of tests to arrive at a diagnosis, without subjecting the patient to unnecessary discomfort and also keeping costs in line. This book provides a firm foundation and point of reference for the practising physician. The book aims to stimulate the reader to think more critically about the diagnostic imaging process, both in the application of tests and in the assessment of their results.
Table of Contents
- The problems of certainty and naming
- general principles of diagnosis and diagnostic imaging
- concise descriptions and comparisons of the modalities
- the radiation risk question
- risks in diagnostic imaging
- imaging by chief complaint, signs, symptoms, or conditions
- imaging by abnormal laboratory findings
- further imaging strategy given an abnormal imaging study
- cancer diagnosis and the metastatic "Work-Up"
- imaging in HIV/AIDS
- imaging in patients with poor prognoses, nursing home patients, and the terminally ill
- reprise and reflections on the methods and purposes of medical diagnosis.
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