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Introductory head & neck imaging / Eugene Yu, Lalitha Shankar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yu, Eugene, author.
- Shankar, Lalitha, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Head--Radiography.
- Neck--Radiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (692 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, [India] : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, 2014.
- Summary:
- This is an introductory textbook that is written by academic radiologists with expertise in the field of Head and Neck Imaging. The textbook takes an anatomy based approach and systematically introduces the reader to the various compartments of the extracranial head and neck. The detailed anatomic definitions and boundaries of each region covered as are the imaging methods that can be best utilized in their evaluation. The most common and critical congenital, infectious, inflammatory and neoplastic processes that can affect the head and neck are examined in each chapter. An introductory chapter on radiation oncology, written by three of our radiation oncology colleagues, is also included in order to provide the reader with a basic knowledge of the fundamental concepts of this very important and commonly utilized treatment modality. The textbook also makes extensive use of color plate illustrations and photographs in addition to numerous sonographic, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging pictures.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Prelims
- Chapter-01_Imaging techniques in head and neck
- Chapter-02_Radiographic anatomy and pathology of the temporal bone
- Chapter-03_Imaging of the orbit
- Chapter-04_Imaging of the paranasal sinuses
- Chapter-05_Diseases of the nasopharynx
- Chapter-06_Imaging of the masticator and parapharyngeal spaces
- Chapter-07_Radiographic anatomy and pathology of the oral cavity
- Chapter-08_Oropharynx
- Chapter-09_Diseases of the parotid gland
- Chapter-10_Perineural disease in the head and neck
- Chapter-11_Imaging evaluation of cervical lymph nodes
- Chapter-12_The larynx and the hypopharynx
- Chapter-13_Carotid, prevertebral, and perivertebral spaces
- Chapter-14_Vascular lesions of the head and neck
- Chapter-15_Diseases of the thyroid gland
- Chapter-16_Introduction to radiation oncology
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 93-86107-59-7
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