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Gastrointestinal Radiology: The Requisites (Requisites in Radiology Series)

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This book is well written but doesn't have enough good quality pictures and is too brief in some important topics.

It's one of those books you can feel the author is really trying to teach you something and not just write some stuff. But it doesn't have enough pictures / schemes and a lot of the CT and MR images are old, poor quality and sometimes not representative. The book is one of the shortest of the requisites series and sometimes doesn't cover enough aspects of some particular topics. There's not a word about specific collateral vessels in portal hypertension.

I have had a great experience with the Mayo Clinic Gastrointestinal Imaging Review book which I would recommend instead.

despite abundant images
i found this book inaccurate, badly written and confusing
i do not recommend it at all

Following the quality standard set by the Radiology Requisites Series, this revised version of the original publication presents the radiographic evaluation of the gastrointestinal system in a time-efficient, yet comprehensive manner. It certainly prepares the groundwork for more detailed texts. The book is divided in eight chapters of moderate length and plenty of images to help solidify concepts. Although gastrointestinal radiology may not be one of the most sought out themes by the radiology residents, this book makes it an enjoyable experience.

I am a practicing radiologist and instructor. This text is poorly written and poorly organized.

i think this book would serve as a good intro, but there is not enough detail regarding specific imaging characteristics of common things -- I am less interested in knowing about phytobezoars (though they are fun for the whole family!) than about MRI appearance of FNH. i need more meat. well, i'm off to lunch.

This is a terrible book that is very poorly organized and omits many important facts. There is more content in the few GI chapters in Brant and Helms than there is in this entire book. Where's the beef!??!! Please do not waste your money like I did.

I'm a radiology resident using the Case Review series to study for the radiology boards. While the rest of the series is pretty good, this one is not. When I've had questions regarding the cases, I'd take them in to have my attendings clarify concepts and so far they have all said that whichever case I was reviewing with them was a bad example, with poor pictures and poor explanation of the concept involved. My fellow residents and attendings recommend the Mayo Clinic GI review.

The worst of the series. 200 cases are listed but many are repeats from earlier in the book. The questions seem random and are not always related to the case presented. Images are suboptimal, for example many of the CT images are coronal without axial images provided. What do you think you are more likely to see on boards, coronal or axial images? You are much better using Mayo Clinic GI imaging review.