Internal Medicine: An Illustrated Radiological Guide - Hardcover

Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3642037089 ISBN 13: 9783642037085

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

In any radiology department worldwide, around 60–70% of investigations deal with surgical cases: trauma, tumors, pre- and postsurgical assessment, surgical follow-ups, and more. In spite of that, radiology has a lot to offer in the ? eld of internal medicine in terms of establishing, con? rming, or rejecting diagnoses, or favoring differential diagnoses. Before I joined radiology, I worked as an internal physician for almost a year and almost another year and half as a general surgeon. This clinical experience leads me to look at radiological images with the eye of a radiologist and the mind of a clinician when I examine patient radiological images. I even take a history and do a clinical examination if I have the chance when the patient is in the ultrasound, CT, or MRI room. I have always believed that the radiologist’s role is not con? ned to writing reports, but it can be broadened to establish the diagnosis in the ? rst hand in the same way as the clinician do. In the medical library, there are books dedicated to the clinical signs of internal medicine diseases; interestingly, there are no such books in the radiology library.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book explains how radiology can be a powerful tool for establishing the diagnosis of many internal medicine diseases that are usually diagnosed on the basis of their laboratory or clinical presentation. It is organized in the classic fashion for internal medicine books, with eleven chapters covering the different internal medicine specialties. Within these chapters, more than 450 diseases are considered, some of which are rarely encountered but are nonetheless significant. For each disease, radiological and clinical features are displayed in images and high-quality digital medical illustrations, and those differential diagnoses are identified that can be ruled out by imaging alone. In addition, the pathophysiology underlying the radiological features is described, enabling the reader to understand why a particular sign is seen on MR images, CT scans, or plain radiographs.

The book will serve as an excellent radiological atlas for internal medicine practitioners and family physicians, showing disease presentations that may be hard to find in standard medical textbooks and explaining which imaging modalities are likely to be most informative in particular patients.

About the Author:

Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh is a radiology specialist, accredited as a Facharzt by the German Board of Radiology. Dr. Al-Tubaikh graduated in May 2003 from the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait City, Kuwait and in March 2012 from the Ludwig-Maximillian Universität (LMU), Klinikum Groβhadern, Institut für Klinische Radiologie, Munich, Germany, where he studied under the supervision of Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Maximilian Reiser. He has an interest and has specialized in the diagnosis of rare disorders based on radiological techniques. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3642037089
• ISBN 13: 9783642037085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 470