Description
Overview
Diagnostic Ultrasound: Vascular is a practical, point-of-care reference that provides a comprehensive understanding of vascular ultrasound. It is a part of the popular Diagnostic Ultrasound series and has been authored by leading experts in the field. The book offers detailed, clinically oriented coverage of ultrasound anatomy, pathology, technique, and diagnosis. It provides a wealth of up-to-date information to help achieve an accurate vascular ultrasound diagnosis for every patient.
Key Features
- Rapidly evolving vascular ultrasound practice and its expanding applications for everyday clinical use
- Extensively illustrated coverage of sonographic anatomy that depicts pertinent vascular structures of the head and neck, chest and abdomen, and extremities
- Image-rich chapters on vascular ultrasound techniques, covering grayscale, color, power, and spectral (pulsed) Doppler imaging, as well as imaging artifacts
- Detailed sonographic descriptions for the vascular diseases and anomalies encountered in clinical practice, including lesions of head and neck, chest and abdomen (including transplants), and extremities, including tips, tricks, and pitfalls
- A gallery of typical and atypical ultrasound appearances covering a wide spectrum of disease, correlated with CT and MR imaging where appropriate, and detailed artistic renderings
- Key vascular ultrasound intervention techniques for both diagnosis and treatment
- Bulleted, templated format that helps to quickly find and understand complex information
- Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices
Highlights
The book ensures that you stay on top of rapidly evolving vascular ultrasound practice and its expanding applications for everyday clinical use. It provides extensively illustrated coverage of sonographic anatomy that depicts pertinent vascular structures. The book also discusses key vascular ultrasound intervention techniques for both diagnosis and treatment.
Book Structure
The book uses a bulleted, templated format to help readers quickly find and understand complex information. It contains thousands of high-quality images and illustrations, and is an ideal reference for radiologists, sonographers, vascular surgeons, and those who are training in these fields.
Authors
Mark E. Lockhart MD MPH
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