Main description:

The Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: Techniques and Differential Diagnoses provides a user-friendly reference for a wide range of radiographic and ultrasonographic findings in dogs and cats.

Key features

Enables successful and clear interpretation of radiographs and ultrasonograms
Offers clearly sequenced text arrangement from the identification of the radiographic or sonographic abnormalities to a list of subsequent considerations for each sign
Prioritizes different clinical findings to tailor further diagnostic tests or therapeutic interventions
Takes imaging abnormalities from the descriptive to the interpretative

New to this edition

Colour throughout enhances user-friendliness
Many new conditions
Extra illustrations show techniques and normal anatomy
Additional information on techniques, normal appearance and disease processes
Expanded Further Reading sections

This book is intended for all users of small animal diagnostic imaging, from radiologists through to general practitioners to veterinary students, and will be an invaluable supplement to existing references in the subject.

Contents:

1. Skeletal system: general

2. Joints

3. Appendicular skeleton

4. Head and neck

5. Spine

6. Lower respiratory tract

7. Cardiovascular system

8. Other thoracic structures - pleural cavity, mediastinum, thoracic oesophagus, thoracic wall

9. Other abdominal structures - abdominal wall, peritoneal and retroperitoneal cavities, parenchymal organs

10. Gastrointestinal tract

11. Urogenital tract

12. Soft tissues

Appendices:

Radiographic faults

Ultrasound terminology and artefacts

Geographic distributions of diseases