Customer Reviews

Chest Radiology: The Essentials

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Very well written text which is easy to read. Many useful mnemonics. Images are very good.

This is a must have for all radiology residents. It is also very useful for interns, medicine, and other residents. In our institution the pulmonary fellows are required to read this text. I personally recommend it to all medical students who rotate through radiology, even if they choose another specialty.

This book was highly recommended by fellow residents, however I have been rather disappointed in it. It does have good tables with differentials and covers a broad range of topics. This is a rather short text that can easily be read in a month's rotation which I think is nice as an introduction. What I found most disappointing were the images provided. As a beginning resident I was looking for lots of good sample images of the given pathology. I felt that too many of the images were the atypical presentation of the given pathology. I guess this could be helpful, but I found it confusing when I didn't even know what the typical presentation was. Overall, the text and tables are pretty good, however I felt like the sample images often didn't adequately show common presentations of the pathology.

Well written, well organized. The book is written in a way that just makes sense to a beginning radiologist in the first few years of training. It seems to anticipate the questions you have & lays out the answers in a logical, brief fashion with excellent examples. While the book has more information than necessary for a medical student, anyone looking to specialize in radiology will find it a well-used companion as they progress in their education.

Anyone looking for more advanced information on chest radiology will be disappointed. However, they should have caught the clue from the title. Use this book to get you started on your education, as the authors intended, and you'll be quite satisfied with your purchase.

I'm a 1st year rads resident and this book was perfect for me. I read Felson's book the weekend before the rotation started (much recommended) and then read through this book over the 4 weeks of the rotation. It's great!

Nice pictures (and lots of them), very useful tables with DDx's and mnemonics for said DDx's (I love mnemonics, so this was right up my alley...I actually got called to take a case one day and I had to give a DDx for Upper/Middle lung zone opacities and SHRIMP jumped into my head, effectively making me look much smarter than I actually am).

This probably won't be too useful after about second year (too brief about disease descriptions), but it is a fantastic intro book to Chest.

The other prior reviews were for the older edition, which I have not seen. The new edition is great. Concise, easy to read, short book that gives you all the information needed for a radiology resident. Covers all the pertinent topics that are hard to grasp well including interstitial lung disease. The new cardiac chapters are great as well and cover all the new modalities. Highly recommend this book for your chest rotation and for studying.

This was a very superficial review of chest radiology. The pictures are not optimal for upper level residents and basically this is a good textbook for medical students and allied health professionals. Does have a very nice background introduction, but too much emphasis on chest radiography "signs." Would not recommend overall, especially to radiology residents or practing radiologists.