Chest X-Ray Made Easy
- 5th Edition - April 14, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Jonathan Corne, Iain Au-Yong
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 2 3 4 - 4
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 2 3 5 - 1
This invaluable little pocketbook takes the reader through the basics of chest X-ray examination and interpretation. It covers the range of conditions clinicians are likely to en… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis invaluable little pocketbook takes the reader through the basics of chest X-ray examination and interpretation. It covers the range of conditions clinicians are likely to encounter on the wards, and guides the reader through the diagnostic process based on the appearance of the abnormality shown.
Suitable for medical students, junior doctors and other health professionals who interpret chest X-rays, including radiographers, nurses and physiotherapists, this text is the ideal solution to increasing your skills and boosting your confidence in using chest X-rays for diagnosis and management.
Chest X-Ray Made Easy
has garnered international praise as the ideal quick and simple guide to understanding chest X-rays.- Concise and succinct - makes interpretation of chest X-rays as simple as possible
- Comprehensive but easy to understand
- Specifically designed for junior doctors and students
- New chapter on what and when to request, and how to do that
- New images throughout, including obvious and subtle examples of abnormalities
- Includes CT images and how they correlate with chest X-rays
- Sections on radiation doses and indications for chest X-rays
- Sections on chest X-ray appearances in COVID-19
- Updated section on imaging in pregnancy
- Features interpretation of placement of lines, tubes, and of complications
- Quiz section to test knowledge
- Established title that is trusted internationally
- Cover Image
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 What and when to request and how this is done
- REQUESTING A CHEST X-RAY
- WHAT HAPPENS ONCE YOU HAVE MADE THE REQUEST
- Chapter 2 How to look at a chest x-ray
- BASIC INTERPRETATION IS EASY
- TECHNICAL QUALITY
- SCANNING THE POSTERIOR-ANTERIOR (PA) FILM
- HOW TO LOOK AT THE LATERAL FILM
- Chapter 3 The CT scan
- COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT) SCANNING
- TYPES OF CT SCAN
- INTERPRETING THE IMAGES
- FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND THE CT SCAN
- ARTEFACTS
- Chapter 4 The lateral chest x-ray
- THE LUNGS
- THE HEART
- Chapter 5 The white lung field
- COLLAPSE
- VOLUME LOSS
- CONSOLIDATION
- PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII (JIROVECI) PNEUMONIA (PCP)
- PLEURAL EFFUSION
- PLEURAL PLAQUES (ASBESTOS PLAQUES)
- MESOTHELIOMA
- PLEURAL DISEASE ON A CT SCAN
- LUNG NODULE
- CAVITATING LUNG LESION
- LEFT VENTRICULAR FAILURE (LVF)
- ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME (ARDS)
- BRONCHIECTASIS
- FIBROSIS
- CHICKENPOX PNEUMONIA
- MILIARY SHADOWING
- Chapter 6 The black lung field
- CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD)
- PNEUMOTHORAX
- TENSION PNEUMOTHORAX
- PULMONARY EMBOLUS (PE)
- MASTECTOMY
- Chapter 7 The abnormal hilum
- UNILATERAL HILAR ENLARGEMENT
- BILATERAL HILAR ENLARGEMENT
- Chapter 8 The abnormal heart shadow
- PERICARDIAL EFFUSION
- ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT (ASD)
- MITRAL STENOSIS
- LEFT VENTRICULAR ANEURYSM
- Chapter 9 The widened mediastinum
- Chapter 10 Abnormal ribs
- RIB FRACTURES
- METASTATIC DEPOSITS
- Chapter 11 Abnormal soft tissues
- SURGICAL EMPHYSEMA
- Chapter 12 The sick patient
- LINES, TUBES AND DEVICES
- THE PATIENT ON INTENSIVE CARE
- Chapter 13 The hidden abnormality
- PANCOAST TUMOUR
- ABNORMALITIES BEHIND THE HEART
- AIR UNDER THE DIAPHRAGM
- Chapter 14 The chest x-ray quiz
- QUESTIONS
- ANSWERS
- Index
- Edition: 5
- Published: April 14, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 202
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702082344
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702082351
JC
Jonathan Corne
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Respiratory Physician, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham; Head of the East Midlands Postgraduate Specialty School of Medicine, Health Education, East Midlands, UKIA
Iain Au-Yong
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Thoracic, Head and Neck and General Radiologist at Nottingham University Hospitals, , Nottingham, UK