Suspected Bone Metastases
-
- $13.99
-
- $13.99
Publisher Description
Richard A. Ofstein, MD guides the referring physician through a step-by-step run-down of current concepts relating to bone metastases, including advantages and limitations of diagnostic tools such as radionuclide bone scanning, radiography and contrast-enhanced MRI, CT and PET-CT. Difficult-to-image sites, and what to expect depending on primary cancer location are described, together with the appropriate studies that are most likely to differentiate malignant from benign pathology, so as to achieve maximum benefit, whether therapeutic or palliative. Concludes with multiple choice interactive quiz.
The RadGuidance® series of ebooks offers practicing clinicians - both primary care doctors and specialists - a quick and easy reference to over 100 distinct conditions, and how state-of-the-art imaging should be applied within the context of diagnosis, preoperative staging and therapy monitoring.
Authored by board certified radiologists who also teach at the finest medical schools in the U.S. and abroad, each book is presented in a clear and concise manner meant to be read in less than an hour, yet contains all the necessary information upon which to base a decision on when to order advanced imaging studies for the particular disease process under review.
The RadGuidance series offers referring physicians and radiology students the opportunity to confirm suspicions or back up decisions by accessing precisely targeted information quickly and economically as cases present in daily practice.