Thoracic Radiology

Prof. Iacopo Carbone is Associate Professor at the Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomopathological Sciences of Sapienza University, Rome and Director of Sapienza University Hospital at Latina. From 2002 to 2004 he worked as radiologist at Azienda Ospedaliera Policlinico Umberto I In 2011 he won the Bracco Diagnostic Imaging Grant named 'Evaluation of early and delayed enhancement areas with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance contrast-enhanced T1 mapping' and authored 30 Peer reviewed publications. Dr Michele Anzidei is a body radiologist at the Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomopathological Sciences of the Sapienza University in Rome with a particular interest in chest CT and lung interventions. He completed a PhD course in cardio-angio-thoracic imaging and has been a research fellow in oncologic molecular imaging for 2 years prior to achieve a position as assistant professor in the same hospital. He is a member of the Italian society of radiology (SIRM) and European society of radiology (ESR), as well as invited lecturer in several national and international congresses and editorial board member/reviewer in various scientific journals. He authored more than 60 scientific papers and several book chapters.

Thoracic anatomy.- Glossary.- Lung nodules.- Lung cancer staging.- Mediastinal masses.- Imaging of the lung after surgercy, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.- Pneumonia and bronchiolitis.- Interstitial lung disease.- Pleural pathology.- Chest x-ray interpretation.

"This book is well produced and well illustrated with high quality radiology images and will, I feel, be well thumbed by radiology trainees and other interested readers wanting a slim yet fairly comprehensive introduction to this field." (Arpan K Banerjee, RAD Magazine, September, 2020)