Ultrasound: The Core Requisites by Middleton, William Dana; Morgan, Tara A.; Fetzer, David T.;

Long description:

Focusing on high-yield information, Ultrasound: The Core Requisites, 4th Edition, emphasizes the basics to help you establish a foundational understanding of ultrasound for reference and review needs of residents, fellows, and practicing physicians. This edition also includes thorough updates on essential emerging topics, including contrast-enhanced ultrasound and elastography, all in a completely rewritten, reorganized and easy-to-read format.

• Helps you build and solidify core knowledge to prepare you for clinical practice with critical, up-to-date information on everything from basic principles to advanced state-of-the-art techniques in ultrasound
• Covers the full spectrum of ultrasound use for general, vascular, obstetric, and gynecologic imaging
• Adds new or expanded topics including practical physics and image optimization, liver masses and gallbladder polyps, small parts including hernias and soft tissue masses, chest and lung diseases, ectopic pregnancy and early pregnancy failure, management of asymptomatic adnexal cysts, and current practice guidelines
• Includes high-yield boxes and tables throughout that highlight differential diagnoses and summarize findings
• Contains many new and updated figures of anatomy and pathology, additional correlative imaging, and new schematics demonstrating important concepts and findings
• Features more than 300 video clips depicting ultrasound findings
• Published as part of the newly reimagined Core Requisites series, an update to the popular Requisites series aimed at radiology trainees and today’s busy clinicians
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

Table of Contents:

Part I General and Vascular
1. Practical Physics
2. Gallbladder
3. Liver
4. Bile Ducts
5. Kidney
6. Lower Genitourinary
7. Pancreas
8. Spleen
9. General Abdomen
10. Neck and Chest
11. Extremities

Part II Obstetrics and Gynecology
12. The Obstetric Ultrasound Examination: Guidelines
13. Fetal Well-Being, Amniotic Fluid Volume, and Hydrops
14. The First Trimester and Ectopic Pregnancy
15. Fetal Central Nervous System, Face, and Neck
16. Fetal Thorax
17. Fetal Gastrointestinal Tract
18. Fetal Genitourinary Tract
19. Fetal Musculoskeletal System
20. Placenta, Umbilical Cord, and Cervix
21. Multiple Gestations
22. Chromosome Abnormalities: Assessment for Aneuploidy
23. Pelvis and Uterus
24. Adnexa