Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics

Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics, 2nd Edition, is an image-filled, practical, and clinical introduction to this integral part of the diagnostic process. William Herring, MD, a skilled radiology teacher, masterfully covers everything you need to know to effectively interpret medical images. Learn the latest on ultrasound, MRI, CT, and more, in a time-friendly format with brief, bulleted text and abundant high-quality images. Then ensure your mastery of the material with additional online content, bonus images, and self-assessment exercises at www.studentconsult.com.

• Identify a wide range of common and uncommon conditions based upon their imaging findings.
• Quickly grasp the fundamentals you need to know through easy-access bulleted text and more than 700 images.
• Arrive at diagnoses by following a pattern recognition approach, and logically overcome difficult diagnostic challenges with the aid of decision trees.
• Learn from the best, as Dr. Herring is both a skilled radiology teacher and the host of his own specialty website, www.learningradiology.com.

• Easily master the fundamental principles of MRI with new and updated coverage of bone density abnormalities, intracranial pathology, and joint disease; ultrasound in a chapter on tumors, tics, and ulcers; and CT in an expanded section called Mediastinal and Lung Masses, and more.
• Ensure your mastery of the material with full-text online access plus additional online content on nuclear medicine and recognizing heart disease from frontal chest radiography, bonus images, and self-assessment exercises at www.studentconsult.com.