Chest X-Rays for Medical Students

Christopher Clarke , Anthony Dux 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2020년 01월 20일 출간

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Chest X-rays for Medical Students offers a fresh analytical approach to identifying chest abnormalities, helping medical students, junior doctors, and nurses understand the underlying physics and basic anatomical and pathological details of X-ray images of the chest. The authors provide a memorable framework for analysing and presenting chest radiographs, with each radiograph appearing twice in a side-by-side comparison, one as seen in a clinical setting and the second highlighting the pathology. This new second edition includes significant revisions, improved annotations of X-rays, expanded pathologies, and numerous additional high-quality images. A comprehensive one-stop guide to learning chest radiograph interpretation, this book: Aligns with the latest Royal College of Radiologists’ Undergraduate Radiology Curriculum Offers guidance on how to formulate normal findings Features self-assessment tests, presentation exercises, and varied examples Includes sections on radiograph quality X-ray hazards and precautions Chest X-rays for Medical Students is an ideal study guide and clinical reference for any medical student, junior doctor, nurse or radiographer.

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Preface to the 2nd Edition ix Acknowledgements xi Learning objectives checklist xiii About the companion website xv Part I Introduction to X-rays 1 1 Introduction to X-rays 3 What are X-rays? 3 How are X-rays produced? 3 How do X-rays make an image? 4 The five densities on an X-ray 4 How are X-ray images (radiographs) stored? 4 Hazards and precautions 5 2 Chest X-ray views 7 PA erect chest X-ray 7 Other views 8 3 Radiograph quality 9 Inclusion 9 Rotation 10 Inspiration 11 4 Normal anatomy on a PA chest X-ray 13 Right and left 13 Lung zones 14 The mediastinum 14 Normal pulmonary vasculature 15 General anatomy 16 Bronchial and lobar anatomy: Figure 4.8 17 5 Presenting a chest radiograph 19 Example of presenting a normal chest X-ray 19 Part II The ABCDE of chest X-rays 21 6 A - Airway 23 How to review the airway 23 What to look for 24 Tracheal deviation 24 Carinal angle 25 7 B Breathing 27 How to review the lungs 27 What to look for 28 Consolidation/airspace opacification 29 Air bronchogram 31 Collapse (atelectasis) overview 32 Pneumonectomy 41 Solitary mass lesion 44 Multiple mass lesions 47 Cavitating lung lesion 48 Fibrosis 50 Pneumothorax 53 Tension pneumothorax 55 Hydropneumothorax 56 Pleural effusion 57 Pulmonary oedema 60 Septal lines 64 Asbestos-related lung disease 65 8 C Circulation 69 How to review the heart and mediastinum 69 What to look for 69 Dextrocardia 69 Cardiomegaly (enlarged heart) 70 Left atrial enlargement 71

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저자(글) Christopher Clarke

CHRISTOPHER CLARKE, Consultant Radiologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK. He is a member of the British and European Societies of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology. ANTHONY DUX, Former Consultant Radiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.

저자(글) Anthony Dux

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