Main description:

This superbly illustrated book describes a comprehensive and modern approach to the imaging of abdominal and pelvic emergencies of traumatic and non-traumatic origin. The aim is to equip the reader with a full understanding of the roles of advanced cross-sectional imaging modalities, including dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To this end, recent literature on the subject is reviewed, and current controversies in acute abdominal and pelvic imaging are discussed. Potential imaging and related pitfalls are highlighted and up-to-date information provided on differential diagnosis. The first two chapters explain an evidence-based approach to the evaluation of patients and present dose reduction strategies for multidetector CT imaging (MDCT). The remaining chapters describe specific applications of MDCT, DECT, and MRI for the imaging of both common and less common acute abdominal and pelvic conditions, including disorders in the pediatric population and pregnant patients. The book will be of value to emergency and abdominal radiologists, general radiologists, emergency department physicians and related personnel, general and trauma surgeons, and trainees in all these specialties.

Contents:

1. Evidence-based Imaging of the Acute Abdomen-Where is the Evidence?

2. Dose Reduction Strategies for Acute Abdominal CT

3. Dual-energy CT in patients with an acute abdomen

4. Acute Hepatobiliary Imaging

5. Advances in Acute Pancreatic Imaging

6. MDCT and MRI of Bowel Obstruction and Ischemia

7. MRI of Acute Appendicitis

8. Advances in MDCT and MRI of Renal Emergencies

9. Vascular Emergencies of the Retroperitoneum:Recent Advances in MDCT and Interventional Radiology

10. Acute Abdominal Pain in Pregnant Patients

11. MRI of the Acute Female Pelvis

12. Recent Advances in Abdominal Trauma

13. Imaging of the Acute Abdomen in the Pediatric Population