Full Description
Evidence-Based Imaging is a user-friendly guide to the evidence-based science and merit defining the appropriate use of medical imaging in both adult and pediatric patients. Chapters are divided into major areas of medical imaging and cover the most prevalent diseases in developed countries, including the four major causes of mortality and morbidity: injury, coronary artery disease, cancer, and cerebrovascular disease. This book gives the reader a clinically-relevant overview of evidence-based imaging, with topics including epidemiology, patient selection, imaging strategies, test performance, cost-effectiveness, radiation safety and applicability. Each chapter is framed around important and provocative clinical questions relevant to the daily physician's practice. Key points and summarized answers are highlighted so the busy clinician can quickly understand the most important evidence-based imaging data. A wealth of illustrations and summary tables reinforces the key evidence.
This revised, softcover edition adds ten new chapters to the material from the original, hardcover edition, covering radiation risk in medical imaging, the economic and regulatory impact of evidence-based imaging in the new healthcare reform environment in the United States, and new topics on common disorders.
By offering a clear understanding of the science behind the evidence, Evidence-Based Imaging fills a void for radiologists, family practitioners, pediatricians, surgeons, residents, and others with an interest in medical imaging and a desire to implement an evidence-based approach to optimize quality in patient care.
Contents
Part I: Principles, Methodology, Economics, and Radiation Risk.- Principles of Evidence-Based Imaging.- Critically Assessing the Literature: Understanding Error and Bias.- Radiation Risk from Medical Imaging: A Special Need to Focus on Children.- The Economic and Regulatory Impact of Evidence-Based Medicine on Radiology.- Part II: Oncologic Imaging.- Breast Imaging.- Imaging of Lung Cancer.- Imaging-Based Screening for Colorectal Cancer.- Imaging of Brain Cancer.- Imaging in the Evaluation of Patients with Prostate Cancer.- Part III: Neuroimaging.- Neuroimaging in Alzheimer Disease.- Neuroimaging in Acute Ischemic Stroke.- Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke.- Neuroimaging for Traumatic Brain Injury.- Neuroimaging of Seizures.- Adults and Children with Headaches: Evidence-Based Role of Neuroimaging.- Imaging Evaluation of Sinusitis: Impact on Health Outcome.- Part IV: Musculoskeletal Imaging.- Imaging of Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis in Children and Adults.- Imaging for Knee and Shoulder Problems.- Pediatric Fractures of the Ankle.- .- Imaging of Adults with Low Back Pain in the Primary Care Setting.- Imaging of the Spine in Victims of Trauma.- Imaging of Spine Disorders in Children: Dysraphism and Scoliosis.- Part V: Cardiovascular and Chest Imaging.- Imaging of the Solitary Pulmonary Nodule.- Cardiac Evaluation: The Current Status of Outcomes-Based Imaging.- Imaging in the Evaluation of Pulmonary Embolism.- Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Disease.- Imaging of the Cervical Carotid Artery for Atherosclerotic Stenosis.- Blunt Injuries to the Thorax and Abdomen.- Part VI: Abdominal and Pelvic Imaging.- Imaging of Appendicitis in Adult and Pediatric Patients.- Imaging in Non-Appendiceal Acute Abdominal Pain.- Intussusception in Children: Diagnostic Imaging and Treatment.- Imaging of Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis (IHPS).- Imaging of Biliary Disorders: Cholecystitis, Bile Duct Obstruction, Stones, and Stricture.- Hepatic Disorders: Colorectal Cancer Metastases, Cirrhosis, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.- Imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children.- Imaging of Nephrolithiasis and Its Complications in Adults and Children.- Urinary Tract Infection in Infants and Children.- Current Issues in Gynecology: Screening for Ovarian Cancer in the Average Risk Population and Diagnostic Evaluation of Postmenopausal Bleeding.- Imaging of Female Children and Adolescents with Abdominopelvic Pain Caused by Gynecological Pathologies.- Imaging of Boys with an Acute Scrotum: Differentiation of Testicular Torsion from Other Causes.- Index.
