The Practice of Ultrasound

A self-teaching guide: learn to perform and evaluate ultrasoundexaminations of the abdomen with no priorexperience. Clear and concise study units for optimum understanding right from the start. Practice-oriented access to each organ (delineation, details, topographic relationships to neighboring organs). Systematic, hands-on guide to professional examination technique Step-by-step instructions. More than 600 ultrasound images and 200 explanatory drawings. All practical aspects of handing the transducer and producing an image. 3-D drawings for complex anatomic situations (e.g., the porta hepatis). Images sequenced for enhanced spatial understanding. Countless practical tips and tricks. The sure road to success. After studying this book, you will be able to: immediately recognize all important ultrasound phenomena, in particular misleading artefacts, confidently identify and delineate all abdominal organs, locate and evaluate difficult structures at a glance, recognize normal limits, and evaluate the most common pathologic findings.