Customer Reviews

Fundamentals of Body Ct (3rd Edition)

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This is a great book with excellent information on body CT imaging.

The reason I give it three stars instead of five is that it's basically an excerpt from the main text of Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology.
If you already own that book, don't buy this one.

Otherwise, I highly recommend it.

An ideal text for easy use which highlights the basic anatomy needed for interpreting CTs and the salient points needed to make diagnosis.

This book provides a sound foundation of body CT for first year residents getting started. Packs a big punch for such a compact book. I found it very helpful on my first month of body CT. I would highly recommend it.

This is a great book for radiologists beginning their first rotation on body CT. A number of reviews mistakenly stated this book was a repeat of the Brant & Helms material. While this may be true to a certain extent for the major pathological conditions, the critics overlooked two significant differences. For one, Body CT takes pains to explain basic concepts that are not elaborated upon in the Brant & Helms series. Additionally, Body CT provides additional examples of normal images & variants that you will not see illustrated in Brant & Helms. To me, this book provided the details missing in Brant & Helms (or spread throughout the different chapters). Together, the two books complemented one another perfectly.

My one knock on the book is the poor quality material. The critics got this part right so don't expect the book to hold up well.

This is a very concise but good book about body CT. Downside is that it does not provide pictures of all pathology that is described and normally only provides a single image for most diagnosis. The text is succinct, allowing it to be read quickly and includes some salient points. It by no means covers each topic in exhaustive detail. The advantage of this book is that the brief, informative text and clear pictures allow you to understand a wide variety of pathology seen in body CT studies. I am confident I will need to upgrade to something with more backbone before I finish residency.

FYI: Book content is good, however the crafting/binding is poor. Without much use several pages are falling off.

A must have for 1st year abdomen rotation! Then you have to move onto more detailed texts, but this one is always a nice quick reference.

I am a first-year Radiology resident that was looking for an introductory book that was easy to finish on my first Body CT rotation. The Fundamentals book was a good text with all the necessary info to build upon. The only negative thing I have to say is that the quality of the binding was terrible. After about a week the binding fell apart so that now the final 150+ pages are no longer bound to the book. I'm pretty finiky about books and take care of them, so it's pretty disappointing. Otherwise, its a good first text.

This book cover all the basic stuff needed in body ct. It should be used as a introduction to the subject.
Highly recommended.