Abdominal Imaging

The objective of Abdominal Imaging is to provide readers with the best of both worlds: a reference that is both comprehensive and that incorporates features more typically found in handbooks—short, readable sentences, key fact boxes, summary tables, abbreviated reference lists, listings of important review articles, and, above all, a highly integrated knowledge base that allows readers to rapidly access key content from any Internet-connected computer anywhere in the world. /.../ we assembled an international group of over 130 expert authors who contributed a total of 136 chapters. Each author created a chapter based on adherence to a template. This approach allows the reader to treat the text as a dynamic resource; instead of reading an entire chapter to find a pertinent fact, the reader can simply turn to the section of interest and rapidly access needed knowledge. We are well aware that useful Radiology texts should have many images for review, and we have taken care to richly illustrate the chapters with over 2,500 images of excellent quality. The chapters have also been supplemented with illustrative boxes titled Key Points, Classic Signs, and What the Referring Physician Needs to Know. These boxes provide tightly focused synopses so that a busy reader may glean the most crucial information in the precious few minutes that are available during a typical day at the reporting workstation. For those who wish to deepen their knowledge beyond the text, a list of key references and review articles has been provided in every chapter. In this way, we hope to facilitate self-study in the many potential areas of reader interest. The text also comes with access to Imaging Consult online, the searchable decision support tool that allows the reader to rapidly retrieve useful information and greatly facilitates the practical use of our twovolume “handbook.”