Interpretation of Emergency Head CT: A Practical Handbook

Description

This easy-to-read Handbook offers clinicians a practical system for interpreting emergency head CT.

This image driven book covers a wide spectrum of conditions likely to be encountered in everyday clinical practice. Practical tips for recognizing subtle pathology, through to the more obvious, are supplemented by easy-to-interpret diagrams. New topics have been added since the first edition, including trauma CT cervical spine interpretation, and an up-to-date section on acute stroke. In addition to the clinical chapters, this Handbook provides simplified technical details, and a brief historical background, making it an excellent reference manual and learning aide for all clinicians with an interest in emergency CT head interpretation.

Key Features:

• Covers a wide range of conditions relating to emergency head CT, allowing the variety of specialist groups needing to interpret these conditions to develop these skills
• Includes a large number of heightened resolution CT plates showing subtle and obvious anomalies, with the accompanying text limited to precise details
• Cervical spine CT interpretation and an extended review of normal anatomy have been added to this second edition