The Right Imaging Study

by Eisenberg, Ronald L.; Margulis, Alexander R.; Taylor, Robert B.

• ISBN13: 9780387737737
• ISBN10: 0387737731
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-07
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Pocket-sized text provides information needed when ordering clinically appropriate and cost-effective diagnostic imaging studies. Features key questions for reference on 300 clinical problems encountered in daily practice. For physicians. Previously titled, What to Order When and published by Lippincott, c2000. Softcover.

Author Biography

Ronald L. Eisenberg, MD, JD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard, Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Radiologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Alexander R. Margulis, MD, Professor Emeritus, University of California at San Francisco; Clinical Professor, Weill-Cornell Medical, College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xv
Preface to the First Edition	p. xvii
Contributors	p. xxiii
Neck and Face	p. 1
Chest	p. 27
Breast	p. 108
Cardiovascular	p. 124
Gastrointestinal	p. 173
Urinary	p. 273
Musculoskeletal	p. 348
Neurologic	p. 408
Reproductive	p. 516
Obstetrics	p. 564
Imaging Modalities	p. 581
Relative Costs of Imaging Procedures	p. 592
Contrast Reaction	p. 595
Subject Index	p. 601
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