Effective medical imaging : a signs and symptoms approach /
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Baltimore :
Williams & Wilkins,
[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- Problems of certainty and naming
- General principles of diagnosis and diagnostic imaging
- Concise descriptions and comparisons of the modalities
- Radiation risk question
- Risks in diagnostic imaging
- Imaging by chief complaint, signs, symptoms, or conditions
- Dyspepsias: chronic upper and lower gastrointestinal complaints and irritable bowel syndrome
- Acute abdominal pain
- Thoracic pain
- Back and neck pain
- Bone and joint pain
- Genitourinary tract pain: urolithiasis and other causes
- Headache
- Arterial hypertension
- Cough and hemoptysis
- Dyspnea: cardiac or pulmonary?
- Jaundice
- Constipation and diarrhea
- Anorexia, nausea and vomiting
- Gastrointestinal bleeding: hematemesis and melena
- Ascites and effusions
- Fever of unknown origin
- Palpable lymphadenopathy
- Breast masses
- Abdominal masses
- Pelvic masses in females
- Thyroid masses and enlargements
- Pregnancy
- Anxiety, nervousness, fatigue and depression
- Imaging by abnormal laboratory findings
- Abnormal urinalysis: renal dysfunction
- Hepatocellular dysfunction
- Endocrine dysfunction.
- (cont) Further imaging strategy given an abnormal imaging study
- Lung: the solitary pulmonary mass
- Kidney: renal masses
- Incidentalomas: hepatic, pituitary, adrenal, and other masses
- Abdominal abscesses and collections
- Cancer diagnosis and the metastic work-up
- Imaging in HIV infection and AIDS
- Imaging in patients with poor prognoses, nursing home patients, and terminally ill patients
- Reprise and reflections on the methods and purposes of medical diagnosis
- Probability and diagnostic testing
- Tables for the posterior probability of a disease.