Tag: Medical imaging
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Book Review: Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics (2011) by William Herring MD
The task of the medical image reader is, ultimately, to recognize images, that is to compare the image on a screen to one that is already etched into theradiologist’s consciousness. As the author notes: “‘Burned’ into the neurons of a radiologists brain are mental images of what a normal frontal chest radiograph looks like, what thoracic sarcoidosis…
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Book Review: Symptom Based Radiology by Donald L. Renfrew MD (2011)
Choosing the wrong imaging study leads to unnecessary costs, complications, and side effects (no citation needed!). Yet many seasoned clinicians sometimes have trouble with knowing what imaging study to order. I think the author was correct in stating: “I wrote Symptom Based Radiology to help primary care providers make better use of radiology services. The…
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Book Review: Comprehensive Radiographic Pathology
Radiology and pathology are so intimately linked–with the former being essentially a field that is dedicated to the interpretations of shadows of the latter–that one would expect to find at least a few dozen comprehensive books about radiologic-pathologic correlations. There are, in fact, only a small handful of them in existence, with Comprehensive Radiographic Pathology (2011)…
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Teach Yourself Radiology!
Radiology is by far the most challenging specialty in all of modern medicine in terms of the sheer quantity and breadth of information one needs to acquire in order to become competent at it. You can, however, teach yourself radiology by focusing on the highest yield items: Step 1 Master radiographic anatomy. Radiologists need to know least four…
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Book Review: Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2009) by Stephen G. Davies
I’ve been reading and annotating this book for close to a month now, and I barely scratched the surface in terms of absorbing the enormous amount of useful information stuffed into this relatively small 500 page handbook. Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (2009), edited by Stephen G. Davies, is an extremely helpful handbook for interpreting…