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Summary
Summary
Faced with a single neuroradiological image of an unknown patient, how confident would you be to make a differential diagnosis? Despite advanced imaging techniques, a confident diagnosis also requires knowledge of the patient's age, clinical data and the lesion location. Pattern Recognition Neuroradiology provides the tools you will need to arrive at the correct diagnosis or a reasonable differential diagnosis. This user-friendly book includes basic information often omitted from other texts: a practical method of image analysis, sample dictation templates and didactic information regarding lesions/diseases in a concise outline form. Image galleries show more than 700 high quality representative examples of the diseases discussed. Whether you are a trainee encountering some of these conditions for the first time or a resident trying to develop a reliable system of image analysis, Pattern Recognition Neuroradiology is an invaluable diagnostic resource.
Author Notes
Born in Switzerland, Francis King spent his childhood in India, where his father was a government official. While still an undergraduate at Oxford he published his first three novels. He then joined the British Council, working in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Finland and Japan, before he resigned to devote himself entirely to writing. For some years he was drama critic for the Sunday Telegraph and he reviewed fiction regularly for the Spectator . He won the Somerset Maugham Prize,the Katherine Mansfield Prize and the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award for Act of Darkness (1983). His penultimate book, The Nick of Time , was long-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Francis King died in 2011.
"One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov." Beryl BainbridgeTable of Contents
| Preface |
| Part I The Brain |
| 1 How to use Part I. The Brain |
| 2 Basic concepts and terminology |
| 3 Basic approach to image interpretation |
| 4 Generalized categorization of diseases and location |
| 5 Differential diagnosis by lesion location |
| 6 Morphologic characterization of lesion appearance |
| 7 Image gallery |
| Part II The Spine |
| 8 Basic concepts and terminology |
| 9 Basic approach to image interpretation |
| 10 Generalized categorization of diseases and location |
| 11 Differential diagnosis by lesion location and morphology |
| 12 Image gallery |
| 13 Appendix: dictation templates |
| Index |
