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1 online resource |
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General Basics -- 1 General -- 1.1 How to Use This Book -- 1.2 Examination Technique and Equipment -- Who do you examine first when learning to scan? -- How do you adjust the ultrasound machine? -- What can you do with the transducer? -- 2 Basic Physical and Technical Principles -- 2.1 Ultrasound -- Definitions -- Propagation of sound -- Production and detection of ultrasound waves: the pulse-echo principle -- Diagnostic ultrasound: propagation of ultrasound in biological tissue -- 2.2 Producing an Image -- A-Mode -- B-Mode -- M-Mode -- 2.3 Artifacts Noise -- Acoustic shadowing -- Posterior acoustic enhancement -- Reverberations -- Beam-width artifact -- Side-lobe artifact -- Mirror-image artifact -- Lateral edge shadow -- Abdominal Ultrasound -- 3 Blood Vessels: The Aorta and Its Branches, the Vena Cava and Its Tributaries -- 3.1 Preliminary Remarks -- 3.2 Locating the Aorta and Vena Cava -- 3.3 Imaging the Aorta and Vena Cava in Their Entirety -- Demonstrating the aorta and vena cava in transverse section -- Demonstrating the aorta and vena cava in longitudinal section -- Abnormalities in the course of the aorta -- 3.4 Organ Details -- Demonstrating arterial and venous pulsations -- Evaluating the vessel walls and lumina -- Identifying and defining the branches of the aorta and vena cava -- 3.5 Anatomical Relationships -- Relationship of the aorta and vena cava to the diaphragm, liver, and cardia -- Area surrounding the celiac trunk and the course of the hepatic artery, splenic artery, and left gastric artery -- Superior mesenteric artery, splenic vein, and renal vessels -- Iliac vessels -- Lymph nodes near the retroperitoneal vessels -- |
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4 Liver -- 4.1 Preliminary Remarks -- 4.2 Locating the Liver -- 4.3 Imaging the Liver in Its Entirety -- Outlines of the liverSystematic survey of liver volume -- 4.4 Organ Details -- Shape -- Size -- Parenchymal pattern -- Vessels of the liver -- Division of the liver into lobes, segments, and subsegments -- The portal vein and its branches -- 4.5 Anatomical Relationships -- Relationship of the left portion of the liver -- Relationship of the central portion of the liver -- Relationships of the right portion of the liver -- Ascites -- 5 Porta Hepatis -- 5.1 Preliminary Remarks -- 5.2 Locating the Porta Hepatis -- 5.3 Systematic Definition of the Porta Hepatis in Transverse and Longitudinal Sections -- Defining the porta hepatis in transverse sectionsDefining the porta hepatis in longitudinal sections -- 5.4 Organ Details: Details of the Vessels in the Porta Hepatis -- Portal vein -- Bile duct -- 6 Gallbladder -- 6.1 Preliminary Remarks -- 6.2 Locating the Gallbladder -- 6.3 Imaging the Entire Gallbladder -- Defining the gallbladder in upper abdominal transverse scans -- Defining the gallbladder in upper abdominal longitudinal scans -- Locating and defining the gallbladder with intercostal flank scans -- Variable position of the gallbladder -- Nonvisualization of the gallbladder -- 6.4 Organ Details -- Regions of the gallbladder |
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General -- Basic physical and technical principles -- Blood vessels : the aorta and its branches, the vena cava and its tributaries -- Liver -- Porta hepatis -- Gallbladder -- Pancreas -- Stomach, duodenum, and diaphragm -- Spleen -- Kidneys -- Adrenal glands -- Bladder, prostate, and uterus -- Quick guide -- The sono consultant -- Documentation |
| Summary |
That straight-forward approach, coupled with more than 1,000 high-quality images and illustrations, enables hand-on learning, yielding the ability to assimilate these techniques quickly and adeptly. This is a stellar resource that provides the requisite tools ... -- Doody's Review (starred review) This third edition of a well-established text from Berthold Block maintains the same style and clarity as previous editions, taking the novice ultrasound practitioner through a series of steps across systems and levels towards scanning competency and evaluation of the findings. -- RAD Magazine The thi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Abdomen -- Ultrasonic imaging
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Ultrasonic imaging -- Methodology
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Abdomen -- diagnostic imaging
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Ultrasonography
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Diagnostic Techniques, Digestive System
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Digestive System -- diagnostic imaging
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Ultrasonography -- methods
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Urogenital System -- diagnostic imaging
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Abdomen -- Ultrasonic imaging
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783131645630 |
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3131645636 |
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