New edition of a handbook that recommends the most efficient and cost-effective imaging strategies for 300 clinical problems. Eisenberg (radiology, U. of California, and Alameda County Medical Center) and Margulis (radiology, U. of California) offer updated imaging approaches that reflect the continued technological advances in diagnostic imaging. The first part of each section deals with those symptoms and signs that do not permit a single working diagnosis. The second part provides coherent strategies that can be used when there is working clinical diagnosis to be confirmed, refined, or rejected by imaging procedures. A list of differential diagnoses is offered for each symptom and sign, and for each clinical diagnosis there is a brief outline of typical signs, symptoms, and predisposing factors.
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