Teaching Manual of Color Duplex Sonography

This up-to-date and user friendly workbook helps medical students, sonographers, residents, and radiologists gain a fundamental grasp of the application of color duplex ultrasound by reviewing normal findings, important pathologic conditions, scanning techniques, and the role and importance of color duplex ultrasound in detecting and assessing various disease states.

The Teaching Manual of Color Duplex Sonography is well known for its easy-to-understand format and user-friendly features which include:

- 450 excellent illustrations

- ideal for visually oriented learners

- Diagrams illustrate the correct way to handle the transducer and position the scan plane

- Self-test quizzes to check one's progress

- Tips, tricks, and common pitfalls

- Washable, pocket-sized reference cards

New

The revised and updated 3rd edition included expanded chapters on basic physical and technical principles and technical innovations.

Topics

- Basic physical and technical principles

- Innovative techniques and ultrasound contrast agents (e.g., power Doppler, SieScape imaging, second-harmonic and tissue-harmonic imaging)

- Vascular surgery: peripheral arterial occlusive disease, venous insufficiency and thrombosis, AV fistulae, and aneurysms

- Endocrinology: thyroid gland

- Internal medicine: abdominal organs, lymph nodes, TIPSS

- Nephrology: kidneys and renal allografts

- Neurology: intra- and extracranial cerebral arteries

- Cardiology: B- and M-mode imaging, cardiac anomalies, wall motion analysis

- Urology: testicular torsion, tumors, erectile dysfunction

- Obstetrics and gynecology: tumors, anomalies, fetal perfusion defects