This book explains how radiology can be a powerful tool for establishing the diagnosis of many internal medicine diseases that are usually diagnosed on the basis of their laboratory or clinical presentation. It is organized in the classic fashion for internal medicine books, with eleven chapters covering the different internal medicine specialties. Within these chapters, more than 450 diseases are considered, some of which are rarely encountered but are nonetheless significant. For each disease, radiological and clinical features are displayed in images and high-quality digital medical illustrations, and those differential diagnoses are identified that can be ruled out by imaging alone. In addition, the pathophysiology underlying the radiological features is described, enabling the reader to understand why a particular sign is seen on MR images, CT scans, or plain radiographs.
The book will serve as an excellent radiological atlas for internal medicine practitioners and family physicians, showing disease presentations that may be hard to find in standard medical textbooks and explaining which imaging modalities are likely to be most informative in particular patients.
Zusammenfassung
In any radiology department worldwide, around 6070% of investigations deal with surgical cases: trauma, tumors, pre- and postsurgical assessment, surgical follow-ups, and more. In spite of that, radiology has a lot to offer in the ? eld of internal medicine in terms of establishing, con? rming, or rejecting diagnoses, or favoring differential diagnoses. Before I joined radiology, I worked as an internal physician for almost a year and almost another year and half as a general surgeon. This clinical experience leads me to look at radiological images with the eye of a radiologist and the mind of a clinician when I examine patient radiological images. I even take a history and do a clinical examination if I have the chance when the patient is in the ultrasound, CT, or MRI room. I have always believed that the radiologist's role is not con? ned to writing reports, but it can be broadened to establish the diagnosis in the ? rst hand in the same way as the clinician do. In the medical library, there are books dedicated to the clinical signs of internal medicine diseases; interestingly, there are no such books in the radiology library.
Inhalt
Gastroenterology.- Liver Cirrhosis.- Fatty Liver Disease (Liver Steatosis).- Recurrent Epigastric Pain.- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.- Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.- Neurology.- Stroke (Brain Infarction).- Stroke Diseases and Syndromes.- Intracranial Hemorrhage.- Meningitis.- Encephalitis.- Epilepsy.- Headache.- Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases.- Parkinsonism.- Dementia.- Huntington's Disease.- Heat Stroke (Pancerebellar Syndrome).- Pulmonology.- Pleural Diseases.- Alveolar Lung Diseases.- Atelectasis (Lung Collapse).- Sarcoidosis.- Emphysema.- Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias.- Histiocytoses.- Hemoptysis.- Cardiology.- Acute Chest Pain.- Diseases of the Great Vessels.- Myocardial Diseases (Cardiomyopathies).- Endocarditis.- Pericardial Diseases.- Nephrology.- Hypertension.- Polycystic Kidney Disease.- Endocrinology and Metabolism.- Grave's Disease (Hyperthyroidism).- Hyperparathyroidism.- Growth Hormone Diseases.- Osteoporosis.- Rickets and Osteomalacia.- Scurvy.- Fluorosis.- Lead Poisoning (Plumbism).- Adrenal Glands Abnormalities.- Sex Hormones Abnormalities.- Sheehan Syndrome (Postpartum Hypopituitarism).- Rheumatology.- Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Ankylosing Spondylitis (MarieStrümpell Disease).- Gout Arthritis.- CPPD and HADD.- Osteoarthritis.- Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis.- Baastrup's Disease (Spinout Process Impingement Syndrome).- Scheuermann's Disease (Juvenile Kyphosis Dorsalis).- Sjögren Syndrome (Myoepithelial Sialadenitis).- Behçet Disease.- Sharp Syndrome (Mixed Connective Tissue Disease).- Hematology.- Hemosiderosis and Hemochromatosis.- ?-Thalassemia Major (Cooley's Anemia).- Sickle Cell Disease.- Pernicious Anemia.- Hemophilia.- Lymphomas.- Leukemia.- Multiple Myeloma (Khaler's Disease).- Amyloidosis.- Evans' Syndrome.- OtherLymphatic Disorders.- Dermatology.- Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis).- Lipoid Proteinosis (Urbach-Weithe Disease).- Dermatomyositis.- Ochronosis (Alkaptonuria).- Diabetology.- Diabetic Hand and Diabetic Foot.- Diabetic Brain and Nervous System.- Diabetic Syndromes.- Diabetes Insipidus.- Obesity, Gastric Banding, and Liposuction.- LipoatrophicLipodystrophic Syndromes.- Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine.- Fever.- Giardiasis.- Amebiasis.- Leprosy (Hansen Disease).- Toxoplasmosis.- Brucellosis (Malta Fever).- Neurocysticercosis.- Ascariasis.- Guinea Worm Disease (Dracunculiasis).- Hydatid Cyst (Echinococcosis).- Chagas' Disease (American Trypanosoma).- Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis).- Tuberculosis.- Typhoid Fever (Salmonellosis).- Malaria.- Animal Bites and Stings.