Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound, 2nd Edition  Editions Saunders

The Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: Techniques and Differential Diagnoses provides a user-friendly reference for a wide range of radiographic and ultrasonographic findings in dogs and cats.

Key features

• Enables successful and clear interpretation of radiographs and ultrasonograms
• Offers clearly sequenced text arrangement from the identification of the radiographic or sonographic abnormalities to a list of subsequent considerations for each sign
• Prioritizes different clinical findings to tailor further diagnostic tests or therapeutic interventions
• Takes imaging abnormalities from the descriptive to the interpretative
  
  

New to this edition

• Colour throughout enhances user-friendliness
• Many new conditions
• Extra illustrations show techniques and normal anatomy
• Additional information on techniques, normal appearance and disease processes
• Expanded Further Reading sections

This book is intended for all users of small animal diagnostic imaging, from radiologists through to general practitioners to veterinary students, and will be an invaluable supplement to existing references in the subject.

Tables of content :

1. Skeletal system: general
2. Joints
3. Appendicular skeleton
4. Head and neck
5. Spine
6. Lower respiratory tract
7. Cardiovascular system
8. Other thoracic structures - pleural cavity, mediastinum, thoracic oesophagus, thoracic wall
9. Other abdominal structures - abdominal wall, peritoneal and retroperitoneal cavities, parenchymal organs
10. Gastrointestinal tract
11. Urogenital tract
12. Soft tissues

Appendices:
- Radiographic faults
- Ultrasound terminology and artefacts
- Geographic distributions of diseases

Author information :

Ruth Dennis, MA, VetMB, DVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, UK; Robert M. Kirberger, BVSc, MMedVet(Rad), DipECVDI, Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Frances Barr, MA, VetMB, PhD, DVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS, School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and Robert H. Wrigley, BVSc, MS, DVR, DipACVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS, University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Sydney, Australia.