Elsevier’s new Problem Solving in Radiology series offers you a concise, practical, and instructional approach to your most common imaging questions. In the Musculoskeletal Volume, you’ll find expert guidance on how to accurately read what you see and how to perform common office procedures, including arthrography and biopsy. User-friendly features such as numerous tables, boxes, tips, rules of thumb, and an atlas-style appendix put today’s best practices at your fingertips. A full-color design, including more than 700 high-quality images highlight critical elements and compliment the text, to enhance your understanding. Best of all, a bonus CD provides you with musculoskeletal CT, MRI, and ultrasound protocols, patient questionnaires, and an appendix that details how to properly image the hip.
Key Features
- Features problem-solving advice to help you accurately identify what you see, especially those images that are not cut and dry.
- Offers how-to-do-it guidance on the two most commonly performed procedures in private practice, arthrography and biopsy.
- Highlights tricks-of-the-trade, tables, boxes, rules of thumb, and other points for easy reference.
- Incorporates high-quality images and a full-color design that illuminate important elements.
Author Information
By William B. Morrison, MD, Professor, Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Director, Division of Musculoskeletal and General Diagnostic Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Timothy G. Sanders, MD, Director of Education and Research, National Musculoskeletal Imaging, Weston, Florida and Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
I. Advanced Modalities: protocols and optimization
1. Optimization of Musculoskeletal Imaging (also see supplementary materials)
II. Procedures
2. Arthrography
3. Biopsy
III. Problem Solving: Disease Categories
4. Arthritis
5. Infection
6. Tumor
IV. Problem Solving: Anatomic Regions
7. Shoulder
8. Elbow
9. Wrist
10. Hand
11. Hip/pelvis
12. Knee
13. Ankle
14. Foot
15. Muscle/soft tissue Imaging
Supplementary Materials:
A. MRI protocols
B. MRI patient questionnaires and templates
"To summarize, the book represents an excellent tool for radiologists in training, general radiologists, and also for the referring clinicians, who want to get an overview on the field with a well written text, and who want a practical guide for the clinical approach. Here, the section on procedures and protocols is especially useful. Tables, tips and rules of thumb of obviously very experienced authors provide an easy and instructional access to all the important MSK imaging issues." - Noebauer-Huhmann I. Book review. Eur J Radiol (2009), doi:10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.04.053
"The references are up to date, and limited to essentials. A welcome feature is the introduction of common surgical procedures of the shoulder, as well as imaging of the postoperative knee.The anatomical full-color pictures clarify the anatomy, and several tables and boxes concentrate on the essential information. This book is highly recommended for anyone involved in musculoskeletal radiology." Acta Radiolgica, 2009