High-Resolution CT of the Lung Textbook (Paperback)

Paperback. Built for the reader who must turn a gray-scale volume into a confidence-graded diagnosis before the multidisciplinary team convenes, this reference grounds every HRCT read in the anatomy of the secondary pulmonary lobule, then carries that foundation through a fixed distribution-pattern-ancillary-findings algorithm into a four-tier confidence framework that states, in one honest word, how far a single study can carry a diagnosis alone. It moves from the fibrotic differential that decides biopsy and antifibrotic eligibility, through the nodular, cystic, and airway-centered patterns that define sarcoidosis, LAM, and small airways disease, into the acute and special-population contexts where the same discipline must hold under real technical constraint. It serves the thoracic radiology fellow, the resident on chest call, and the pulmonologist reading alongside radiology.Confidence-tiered pattern callouts, cross-referenced cases, and a consolidated point-of-care atlas turn a compressed differential into a defensible report.Inside, You Will Learn How To- Grade the UIP call - apply the typical, probable, indeterminate, and alternative-diagnosis tiers that decide whether idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis needs biopsy.- Separate NSIP from UIP - read subpleural sparing and symmetry against the finding whose absence caps a pattern below typical.- Read exposure into the image - apply multilobar air trapping and the head-cheese sign to redirect fibrosis toward hypersensitivity pneumonitis.- Stage sarcoidosis and defend it - correlate perilymphatic nodularity and centrilobular sparing against carcinomatosis, silicosis, and infection.- Name the cyst - distinguish LAM, Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome, and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia by shape, distribution, and wall.- Confirm the mosaic - apply expiratory accentuation to separate airway-obstructive from vascular causes, including chronic thromboembolic disease.- Read the transplanted lung - integrate time since transplant and immunosuppression with the halo sign, the air-crescent sign, and the Pneumocystis pattern.- Report it so the team can act - a five-element structured template and a cross-referenced atlas that turn every chapter into a two-minute lookup.Open it before the next indeterminate case reaches your worklist. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…