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Diagnostic Imaging: Ultrasound, 1e

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This is by far my favorite ultrasound textbook. It breaks everything down by organ, gives a full discription of "normal anatomy" and then further breaks it down by disease process. Each disease process gets its own heading and has a 2-5 page detailed explanation. The book gives information about clinical presentations, symptoms, correlating dianostic imaging test results and, best of all, has TONS of images!!! I have never seen a book with higher quality images before. And there isn't just one for each abnormality, there are several! The explanations are neatly organized and easy to read. They even put a "What you really need to know" type box at the top so if you're lazy you can just read that. Everything is covered that one would need for the abdominal board exam, obscure small parts included. The ONLY thing this book doesn't have are quiz questions, so if you're looking for exam practice look to Lippincott's review book.

This text as with all the text in this series is very informative. I love it.

This is an excellent text for general ultrasound departments. Areas covered include abdominal, gynaecological & small parts ultrasound imaging in one of the most useful formats I've yet to discover. Each topic is broken down into sections e.g. grayscale, colour Doppler & spectral Doppler features. Also included is how each pathology appears on alternative imaging modalities - above and beyond the books title!

Although this text also includes very useful chapters for breast, musculo-skeletal and vascular imaging, I believe anyone specialising in these fields will find more information elsewhere. Obvious omissions from this text is the lack of paediatric & neonatal cranial ultrasound. Obstetric ultrasound imaging is covered within a separate (also excellent) text in the publishers Diagnostic Imaging seriesDiagnostic Imaging: Obstetrics. Otherwise, specialised fields including endoscopic, intra-operative, opthalmic, rheumatoid & penile ultrasound imaging are not included.

Despite any areas of omission, I believe this is still the best ultrasound text for general imaging departments, and is particularly well laid out for those studying Diagnostic Ultrasound.

If I can mention as a disadvantage it's the fact that it doesn't begin as a abc.... book when you can learn the anatomy , pathology of the disease and in the end the ultrasound of that region. As a alone ultrasound book I recommend it to you other wise if you mind to make a warm up before going to the imagery part than I can say you are at the wrong book.

from Tirana/Albania

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Faleminderit

This book is by far the most helpful for beginners. You will learn how to recognize pathology in ultrasound because the author includes many helpful images. What I found most helpful was the labeling of the sonogram images with arrows. Some books (e.g. Rumack- Diagnostic Ultrasound) do not use "arrows" to label the actual image after stating existing pathology on the image. It was very frustrating for a novice like myself because sometimes I wasn't sure which part of the image was the actual pathology or artifact that the author mentioned in the text. The other thing is sometimes Rumack would discuss a disease that appears on a sonogram, but not include even one image for that disease. Or sometimes, only one image would be included. It just wasn't well organized. The only time I would recommend Rumack's book is for people who already have experience with ultrasound pathology such as physicians.

On the contrary: Ahuja's- Diagnostic Imaging Ultrasound is categorized very well. Each pathology discussed has an outline of the sonogram image findings and it has multiple images for each pathology with "ARROWS" to point out the features of the image mentioned in the text. I definitely recommend this book over Rumack. I wish I could have saved my money and bought this book first.