Emergency Radiology of the Abdomen Imaging Features and Differential Diagnosis for a Timely Management Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scaglione, Mariano (Editor), Linsenmaier, Ulrich (Editor), Schueller, Gerd (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan, 2012.
• Series: Medical Radiology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Radiology.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Emergency Medicine.

This book comprehensively highlights modern emergency radiology diagnosis of the acute abdomen. In traumatic as well as non-traumatic emergencies, the clinical term “acute abdomen” refers to a variety of serious conditions in an often progressive clinical situation that call for an immediate diagnos...

Table of Contents:

• Acute Abdomen: Clinical Context and Indications to Imaging
• Acute Abdomen: Rational use of US, MDCT and MRI.- Liver and Bile Ducts
• Gallbladder
• Spleen.- Pancreas
• Kidney, Ureter, Adrenal Gland
• Gastrointestinal Tract
• Pelvis
• Vascular Emergencies of the Retroperitoneum
• MRI of the Acute Abdomen
• Acute Abdomen in the pediatric population
• The Role of Interventional Radiology.