Main description:

This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive review of every aspect of emergency chest radiology in patients who are admitted to emergency departments with chest trauma or chest pain. The aim is to offer an unsurpassed source of practical information on imaging diagnosis of acutely ill and injured patients with this symptomatology. To this end, the wide spectrum of chest and cardiovascular emergencies are systematically categorized and typical imaging manifestations of these emergent conditions are illustrated in superb detail, with particular attention to the role of state of the art imaging techniques. The book will be an ideal resource for all members of the emergency team, general and emergency radiologists, radiology residents, and medical students.

Contents:

1. Traumatic lung injury2.Traumatic airway injury3.Diaphragmatic Injuries4.Traumatic skeletal injuries5.Traumatic and non-traumatic esophageal emergency6.Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of acute aortic diseases7.Evaluation of acute cardiac diseases with computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging8.Pulmonary Infection (Pneumonia)9.Mediastinal and spinal infection10.Pulmonary embolism 11.Non-Infectious Pulmonary Emergency12.Postoperative Emergency13.Pleural diseases14.Foreign bodies in the thorax15.Contrast extravasation on chest CT.