3rd Edition
by Atif Zaheer, Siva P Raman, Bryan R. Foster, Ghaneh Fananapazir
Highly practical and user-friendly, ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis, third edition, helps you reach accurate, clinically useful differential diagnoses in your everyday practice. It presents the most useful differential diagnoses for each region of the abdomen and pelvis, grouped according to anatomic location, generic imaging findings, modality-specific findings, or clinical-based indications. Each differential diagnosis includes several high-quality, succinctly annotated images; a list of diagnostic possibilities sorted as common, less common, and rare but important; and brief, bulleted text offering helpful diagnostic clues. It’s an excellent resource for subspecialty abdominal imagers as well as general radiologists and trainees, providing invaluable assistance in reaching logical, on-target differential diagnoses based on key imaging findings and clinical details.
- Covers 175
of the most common diagnostic challenges in abdominal and pelvic
imaging, enhanced by more than 2,100 radiologic images, full-color
illustrations, clinical and histologic photographs, and gross pathology
images
- Provides a
quick review of the salient features of each entity, differentiating
features from other similar-appearing abnormalities
- Includes new chapters on hematuria, flank pain, acute scrotal pain, and seminal vesicle
- Adds
greater focus to advancing prostate imaging methods with expanded
content on lesions in the peripheral zone and lesions in the transition
zone, as well as new coverage of transplant imaging
- Contains updates
to numerous classifications, including LI-RADS for liver, O-RADS for
ovarian masses, and the Tanaka classification for pancreatic cysts
- Features new
MR examples and MR-specific diagnoses throughout, plus new
differentials for contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings related to liver
and kidney lesions
