The Practice of Ultrasound: A Step-by-Step Guide to Abdominal Scanning

Block, Berthold

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3131383615 ISBN 13: 9783131383617

Casa editrice: THIEME, 2004

This highly practical self-teaching guide teaches you how to perform and evaluate the ultrasound examination of the abdomen with no prior experience!

Key features:

- Clear and concise study units for effortless understanding from the start

- Practice-oriented access to each organ (delineation, details, surroundings)

- 3-D drawings for complex anatomic situations (e.g., the porta hepatis)

- Image sequences for enhanced spatial understanding

- Countless practical tips and tricks

This is the sure road to success. After studying this book, you will be able to:

- Immediately recognize all important ultrasound phenomena, in particular, misleading artifacts

- Confidently identify and delineate all upper abdominal organs,

- Locate and evaluate difficult structures at a glance,

- Recognize normal limits

- Evaluate the most common pathologic findings

More than 900 high-quality illustrations and step-by-step instructions guide you through all the fundamentals. As an introduction to the field or as a refresher, this systematic, hands-on guide is essential to perfecting your examination techniques for optimal patient care.

Contenuti:

1 General
How to Use This Book
Examination Technique and Equipment

2 Basic Physical and Technical Principles
Ultrasound
Producing an Image
Artifacts

3 Blood Vessels: The Aorta and its Branches, the Vena cava and its Tributaries
Organ Boundaries
Organ Details
Anatomical Relationships

4 Liver
Organ Boundaries
Organ Details
Anatomical Relationships

5 Porta hepatis
Organ Boundaries
Organ Details

6 Gallbladder
Organ Boundaries
Organ Details
Anatomical Relationships

7 Pancreas

8 Stomach, Duodenum, and Diaphragm

9 Spleen

10 Kidneys

11 Adrenal Glands

12 Bladder, Prostate, and Uterus

13 The Systematic Ultrasound Examination
Topographic Units
Description of Findings and Nomenclature
Documentation

Index