Comprehensive Textbook of Clinical Radiology Volume III: Chest and Cardiovascular System

Comprehensive textbook of Clinical Radiology is a fully integrated illustrated textbook of radiology to cater for residents and practising radiologists. It is a one-stop solution for all academic needs in radiology. It helps radiologists as a single reference book to gain complete knowledge instead of referring to multiple resources. More than 500 remarkable authors, who are recognized experts in their subspeciality, have contributed to this book. To meet the expectations of clinical radiologists, thorough clinical expertise and familiarity with all the imaging modalities appropriate to address their clinical questions are necessary, regardless of one’s favoured subspeciality. To keep the content relevant to them, we have tried to stay upgraded to their level. This book comprises six volumes, which gives information on Radiological Anatomy, Embryology, Nomogram, Normal Variants, Physics, Imaging Techniques, and all the aspects of Diagnostic Radiology including Neuroradiology, Head and Neck, Chest and CVS, Abdomen, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Breast, Musculoskeletal and Multisystem Disorders & related Interventional techniques. It will serve as a primary reference for residents and subspeciality trainees and fellows to facilitate their learning in preparation for their examination, and also the consultant radiologists in their daily clinical practice.

This volume is subdivided into two sections. Section 5 deals with the diagnosis and interventions involving the chest and its contents. The pleura, mediastinum, lungs, chest wall and bony thoracic cage are discussed in detail. The initial section deals with the anatomy, development, paediatric abnormalities of the chest and approach to lung lesions. Section 6 is further subdivided into three subparts. The initial section deals with paediatric cardiac imaging. It begins with normal development of paediatric heart, approach to paediatric cardiac X-rays and describes all paediatric cardiac pathologies. The second part deals with the adult cardiac imaging involving all the pathologies of the heart, pericardium, pulmonary vasculature and the coronary arteries. The third part educates the reader with the peripheral vascular imaging and interventions.