A Concise Textbook of Clinical Imaging [antikvár]

Preface to the Second Edition The first edition of this work, published by Springer-Verlag, was very well received, with laudatory reviews in American and British radiology journals and also in The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine. With this second edition, publication has been taken over by Mosby-Year Book after a friendly agreement with the original publishers, and the title has been changed to A Concise Textbook of Clinical Imaging. This is because the text has grown substantially in both page and illustration counts and can no longer be regarded as Short though it remains, we hope, Concise. Our aims remain unchanged—to provide clear guidance for the first and second year resident and trainee in radiology and imaging as to which of the bewildering array of imaging methods and tests available are appropriate for specific clinical situations and what current practice and preferences are at Teaching Hospitals. In the four years since the first edition, progress and change in clinical imaging have continued apace and are reflected in the revised text. These include increasing use of improved and more sophisticated MRI, particularly in neuroradiology, skeletal, and vascular work; more general use of color Dop-pler in ultrasound; and more widespread application of high resolution CT, especially in chest work. It is a happy coincidence but no less appropriate that this new edition should be published in the centenary year of Roentgen's epoch-making discovery of x-rays. David Sutton Jeremy W.R. Young