The Chest X-Ray: A Survival Guide  (English, Paperback, de Lacey Gerald MA, FRCR)

Featuring a practical, clinical approach, this title helps you build a foundation in chest x-ray interpretation. It presents fundamental principles and key anatomical concepts. It walks you through examples of chest x-ray features that provide evidence of abnormality. It explores a variety of problems and dilemmas common to clinical practice.

Salient Features

• Provides a strong foundation of essential knowledge for an informed, systematic approach to accurate chest x-ray interpretation.
• Features the work of three radiologists who offer you the benefit of their many years of clinical and teaching experience.
• Emphasizes common errors and misdiagnoses to help ensure correct image readings.
• Presents step-by-step guidance in a bulleted, quick-access format, in short chapters focused on clinical problems, to make it easy to master the information that you need to know.
• Makes difficult anatomic concepts easier to grasp by pairing radiographs with color line drawings.
• Explains the nomenclature special to the field through a glossary of important terms.
• Highlights the most important concepts in diagnosis/interpretation via Key Points in each chapter.