Thoracic Radiology: A Guide for Beginners - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030357643 ISBN 13: 9783030357641

Publisher: Springer, 2020

Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive overview of all major pathologic conditions involving the lung and mediastinum and the related diagnostic procedures. Oncologic and non-oncologic conditions are reviewed and described in detail, featuring, besides normal anatomy, also high quality images from several modalities (including X-ray, CT, MR and PET), as well as b/w and color illustrations and line drawings. Complications associated with surgical and oncological treatments are also presented in detail with  extensive imaging examples.

The book provides  a thorough coverage of the topic of thoracic imaging, yet considering a concise and synthetic approach essential to optimal learning. 

The book will be a useful reference guide for the everyday clinical practice of young radiologists, residents and medical students.

About this title

About the Author

Prof. Iacopo Carbone is Associate Professor at the Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomopathological Sciences of Sapienza University, Rome and Director of Sapienza University Hospital at Latina.
From 2002 to 2004 he worked as radiologist at Azienda Ospedaliera Policlinico Umberto I
In 2011 he won the Bracco Diagnostic Imaging Grant named ‘Evaluation of early and delayed enhancement areas with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance contrast-enhanced T1 mapping’ and authored 30 Peer reviewed publications.

Dr Michele Anzidei is a body radiologist at the Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomopathological Sciences of the Sapienza University in Rome with a particular interest in chest CT and lung interventions. He completed a PhD course in cardio-angio-thoracic imaging and has been a research fellow in oncologic molecular imaging for 2 years prior to achieve a position as assistant professor in the same hospital. He is a member of the Italian society of radiology(SIRM) and European society of radiology (ESR), as well as invited lecturer in several national and international congresses and editorial board member/reviewer in various scientific journals. He authored more than 60 scientific papers and several book chapters.

From the Back Cover

This book offers a comprehensive overview of all major pathologic conditions involving the lung and mediastinum and the related diagnostic procedures. Oncologic and non-oncologic conditions are reviewed and described in detail, featuring, besides normal anatomy, also high quality images from several modalities (including X-ray, CT, MR and PET), as well as b/w and color illustrations and line drawings. Complications associated with surgical and oncological treatments are also presented in detail with  extensive imaging examples.
The book provides  a thorough coverage of the topic of thoracic imaging, yet considering a concise and synthetic approach essential to optimal learning. 

The book will be a useful reference guide for the everyday clinical practice of young radiologists, residents and medical students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030357643
• ISBN 13: 9783030357641
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Carbone Iacopo, Anzidei Michele