Synopses & Reviews
Congenital Diseases and Syndromes - An Illustrated Radiological Guide is designed to serve the radiologist as an easy-to-use visual guide that illustrates the typical diagnostic radiological features of the most common congenital diseases and syndromes. The book is organised according to body system, with chapters focusing on the CNS, the head and neck, the chest and heart, the abdomen and pelvis, and the musculoskeletal system. A final chapter is devoted to phacomatoses. Each syndrome or disease is illustrated by multiple images as well as by high-quality digital medical illustrations depicting those radiological signs that are difficult to detect. The reader is thereby familiarised with the various congenital anomalies from the radiological point of view. In addition, etiology, diagnostic criteria, and main symptoms are described, and potential differential diagnoses highlighted. This book will be immensely useful for junior radiologists, radiology students, and doctors in any specialty who are interested in congenital malformations and syndromes.
Review
From the reviews: "The aim of the book is to present to the reader, in a concise, easy to read and easy to reference style the results of years of research in the field of congenital diseases and syndromes. ... Each topic is concisely and precisely described, illustrated by well chosen radiological images ... plus a very short reference list for further reading are included. ... is recommended reading for clinicians as well as radiologists." (Giampiero Beluffi, La Radiologica Medica, Vol. 115, 2010)
Synopsis
This book is designed to serve the radiologist as a simple visual guide that illustrates the typical diagnostic radiological features of the most common congenital diseases and syndromes. It includes supplementary high-quality digital medical illustrations.
Table of Contents
CNS: Anencephaly. Encephaloceles. Holoprosencephaly. Hydraencephaly. Schizencephaly. Septo-optic dysplasia. Corpus callosum dysgenesis. Gyral abnormalities. Grey matter heterotopias. Arnold-Chiari malformations. Dandy-Walker anomaly. Cavum septum pellucidum and cavum vergae. Fahr's syndrome. Menkes and Wilson diseases. Cerebellar anomalies.- Head and neck: Eagle syndrome. Hyperostosis frontalis interna. Craniofacial fibrous dysplasia and its anomalies. Gardner syndrome. Choanal atresia. Congenital cystic lesions of the head and neck. External auditory canal atresia. Congenital hearing loss anomalies. Hearing loss syndromes. Petrous bone vascular anomalies. Orbital anomalies. Congenital cholesteatoma.- Chest and heart: Azygos fissure. Scimitar syndrome. Horseshoe lung. Poland syndrome. Bronchiectasis syndromes. Osler-Weber-Rendau syndrome. Aortic arch anomalies. Coronary arteries anomalies. Rare congenital heart anomalies.- Abdomen and pelvis: Heterotaxy syndromes. Cheladiti syndrome. Meckele's diverticulum. Duodenal atresia. Budd-Chiari syndrome. Cruveilhier-Baumgarten syndrome. Carolis's disease. Mirizzi syndrome. Anomalies of the spleen. Inferior vena cava anomalies. Anomalies of the kidney. Uterine anomalies. Retrocaval ureter. Hematocolpos. Alagille syndrome.- Musculoskeletal system: Basics of bone dysplasia. Congenital radioulnar synostosis. Klipple-Feil anomaly. Spinal dysraphism. Vertebral clefts. Arcuate foramen. Supracondylar process. Tarsal coalition. Paget's disease. Osteopetrosis and Dysosteosclerosis. Mucopolyssachridosis. Ollier and Maffucci syndromes. Osteogenesis imperfecta. Caudal regression syndrome and sirenomelia. Ellis Van Cerveld syndrome (chondroectodermal dysplasia). SAPHO syndrome. Fong's syndrome. Progeria. Tarlov cyst. Madelung's deformity and dyschondrosteosis.- Phakomatoses. Neurofibromatosis. Struge weber syndrome. Tuberous sclerosis. Neurocutaneous melanosis. PHACE syndrome. von Hipple Lindau disease. Cowden disease. Gorlin's disease. Wyburn-Mason syndrome.