
Practice of Ultrasound: A Step-by-Step Guide to Abdominal Scanning
A Step-by-Step Guide to Abdominal Scanning
- 253 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Practice of Ultrasound: A Step-by-Step Guide to Abdominal Scanning
A Step-by-Step Guide to Abdominal Scanning
About this book
This highly practical self-teaching guide teaches you how to perform and evaluate the ultrasound examination of the abdomen with no prior experience! Key features: - Clear and concise study units for effortless understanding from the start - Practice-oriented access to each organ (delineation, details, surroundings) - 3-D drawings for complex anatomic situations (e.g., the porta hepatis) - Image sequences for enhanced spatial understanding - Countless practical tips and tricks This is the sure road to success. After studying this book, you will be able to: - Immediately recognize all important ultrasound phenomena, in particular, misleading artifacts - Confidently identify and delineate all upper abdominal organs, - Locate and evaluate difficult structures at a glance, - Recognize normal limits - Evaluate the most common pathologic findings More than 900 high-quality illustrations and step-by-step instructions guide you through all the fundamentals. As an introduction to the field or as a refresher, this systematic, hands-on guide is essential to perfecting your examination techniques for optimal patient care.
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Table of contents
- The Practice of Ultrasound: A Step-by-Step Guide to Abdominal Scanning
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- 1 General
- 2 Basic Physical and Technical Principles
- 3 Blood Vessels: The Aorta and its Branches, the Vena cava and its Tributaries
- 4 Liver
- 5 Porta hepatis
- 6 Gallbladder
- 7 Pancreas
- 8 Stomach, Duodenum, and Diaphragm
- 9 Spleen
- 10 Kidneys
- 11 Adrenal Glands
- 12 Bladder, Prostate, and Uterus
- 13 The Systematic Ultrasound Examination
- Index