Atlas of Diagnostic Ultrasound by Tchacarski, Valery -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

1. Application of ultrasound in medical imaging diagnostics

1.1. Ultrasound - basic physical principles 1.2. Generation and reception of ultrasound 1.3. Amplitude scanning and visualization - A-scan (A-mode) 1.4. B-mode scanning and visualization 1.5. Electronic linear and phased array scanning 1.6. Ultrasonic transducers for medical applications 1.7. Combined scanning (Duplex, Triplex) 1.8. Basic scanner control tools 1.9. Computerized ultrasonic instrumentation 1.10. Ultrasonic image processing 1.11. Ultrasonic image recording 1.12. Artifacts in ultrasonic medical diagnostics 1.13. Application of the Doppler effect in US medical instruments 1.14. Biological safety of ultrasound 1.15. New developments in medical ultrasonic instrumentation GLOSSARY REFERENCES

2. BASIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN SONOGRAPHY. PRINCIPLES OF DOPPLER. CONTRAST AGENTS

2.1. ULTRASOUND IMAGES 2.2. REPORT OF ULTRASOUND FINDINGS 2.3. WAYS OF ARCHIVING ULTRASOUND IMAGES 2.4. PREPARATION OF PATIENTS FOR EXAMINATION 2.5. MAINTENANCE OF THE ULTRASOUND MACHINES 2.6. PRINCIPLES of DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY 2.7. ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENTS References

3. TOPOGRAPHIC ANATOMY

3.1. TOPOGRAPHIC ANATOMY 3.2. ULTRASOUND ANATOMY

4. LIVER

4.1. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 4.2. ULTRASOUND ANATOMY 4.3. DIFFUSE LIVER DISEASES 4.4. FOCAL LIVER LESIONS 4.5. RARE FINDINGS 4.6. LAPAROSCOPIC SONOGRAPHY OF LIVER References

5. DOPPLER STUDY OF THE HEPATIC VASCULAR SYSTEM

5.1. NORMAL HAEMODYNAMICS 5.2. PORTAL HYPERTENSION 5.3. PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS 5.4. BUDD - CHIARI SYNDROME 5.5. PORTOCAVAL ANASTOMOSES 5.6. TIPSS (transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic stent shunts) 5.7. GAS IN THE PORTAL VEIN 5.8. ANEURYSM AND PSEUDOANEURYSM OF THE HEPATIC ARTERY 5.9. ANEURYSM OF THE PORTAL VEIN 5.10. INTRAHEPATIC SHUNTS 5.11. THE TRANSPLANTED LIVER 5.12. RARE FINDINGS 5.13. COLOUR DOPPLER SETTINGS 5.14. DUPLEX DOPPLER SETTINGS FOR VENOUS FLOW References

6. THE BILIARY SYSTEM

6.1. THE GALLBLADDER 6.1.1. ANATOMY 6.1.2. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 6.1.3. PATHOLOGY 6.2. BILE DUCTS 6.2.1. ANATOMY 6.2.2. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 6.2.3. PATHOLOGY REFERENCES

7. THE PANCREAS

7.1. ANATOMY 7.2. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 7.3. INFLAMMATORY DISEASES 7.4. FLUID LESIONS 7.5. SOLID LESIONS 7.6. ENDOCRINE TUMOURS 7.7. RARE PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS 7.8. PAEDIATRICS 7.9. LAPAROSCOPIC ULTRASOUND 7.10. PITFALLS IN ULTRASOUND OF THE PANCREAS REFERENCES

8. THE SPLEEN

8.1. ANATOMY AND TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 8.2. CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 8.3. PATHOLOGY 8.3.1. FLUID LESIONS 8.3.2. SOLID LESIONS 8.4. SPLENIC GRANULOMAS 8.5. SPLENOMEGALY 8.6. VASCULAR PATHOLOGY REFERENCES

9. THE KIDNEYS

9.1. ANATOMY 9.2. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 9.3. CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 9.4. FLUID LESIONS 9.5. SINUS LIPOMATOSIS 9.6. NEPHROLITHIASIS 9.7. NEPHROCALCINOSIS 9.8. SOLID LESIONS 9.9. DIFFUSE RENAL DISEASES 9.10. THE TRANSPLANTED KIDNEY 9.11. VASCULAR CONDITIONS 9.12. MISLEADING IMAGES REFERENCES

10. Renal Doppler Study

10.1. Preparation for the study 10.2. Anatomy 10.3. Imaging Techniques 10.4. Doppler 10.5. Power Doppler 10.6. Pulsed Wave Doppler 10.7. Renal vein thrombosis 10.8. Nutcracker syndrome 10.9. Arterio-venous Fistula 10.10. Renal vein varices 10.11. Testing of patients with obstruction and renal colic 10.12. Renal artery stenosis 10.13. Aneurysm of the renal artery 10.14. Renal Tumours 10.15. Diffuse renal diseases 10.16. Kidney stones 10.17. Acute renal injury 10.18. Chronic Renal FAILURE 10.19. Doppler Imaging of the transplanted kidney 10.20. Artifacts in Doppler Imaging of the Renal vessels 10.21. CONTRAST ENCHANCED ULTRASONOGRAPHY REFERENCES

11. THE ADRENALS

11.1. ANATOMY 11.2. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 11.3. PATHOLOGY References

12. THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY

12.1. THE RETROPERITONEAL SPACE 12.2. INTRAPERITONEAL PATHOLOGY 12.3. GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT 12.4. MISCELLANEOUS FINDINGS 12.5. ANTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL 12.6. INTESTINAL ISCHAEMIA 12.7. POTENTIAL PITFALLS References

13. THE BLADDER

13.1. ANATOMY AND TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 13.2. PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS References

14. THE PROSTATE GLAND

14.1. ANATOMY 14.2. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 14.3. PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS References

15. THE SCROTUM

15.1. ANATOMY 15.2. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 15.3. BENIGN LESIONS 15.4. MALIGNANT LESIONS 15.5. INFLAMMATORY DISEASES 15.6. VASCULAR DISORDERS 15.7. FLUID IN THE SCROTUM 15.8. TRAUMA 15.9. CONGENITAL ANOMALIES 15.10. MISCELLANEOUS References

16. ULTRASOUND IN PAEDIATRICS

16.1. GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT 16.2. LIVER 16.3. THE BILIARY SYSTEM 16.4. Spleen. 16.5. THE PANCREAS 16.6. ADRENAL GLANDS 16.7. KIDNEYS AND URINARY TRACT 16.8. SPINAL CORD (SPINAL ECHOGRAPHY). References

17. THYROID GLAND

17.1. ANATOMY 17.2. METHOD OF EXAMINATION 17.3. ULTRASOUND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORMAL THYROID GLAND 17.4. CONGENITAL DISEASES OF THE THYROID GLAND 17.5. BENIGN DISEASES OF THE THYROID 17.6. MALIGNANT THYROID TUMOURS 17.7. INFLAMMATORY DISEASES 17.8. PARATHYROID GLANDS 17.9. CERVICAL LYMPH NODES REFERENCES

18. THE SALIVARY GLANDS

18.1. ANATOMY 18.2. TECHNIQUE OF EXAMINATION 18.3. SIALOLITHIASIS 18.4. INFLAMMATION 18.5. CYSTS 18.6. TUMOURS 18.7. MISCELLANEOUS 18.8. NECK LESIONS References

19. MAMMARY GLAND

19.1. ANATOMY OF MAMMARY GLANDS 19.2. METHOD OF BREAST EXAMINATION 19.3. ULTRASOUND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NORMAL BREAST 19.4. BENIGN DISEASES OF THE BREAST 19.5. MALIGNANT LESIONS OF THE BREAST 19.6. INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE BREAST 19.7. TRAUMA 19.8. BREAST IMPLANTS 19.9. CHANGES AFTER SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS AND RADIOTHERAPY 19.10. ULTRASOUND OF THE MALE BREAST 19.11. THE ROLE OF ULTRASOUND IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE BREAST References

20. THORAX