Benign Structural and Functional Abnormality of the Esophagus
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Radiology Illustrated Gastrointestinal Tract
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Radiology Illustrated
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Byung Ihn Choi Editor
Radiology Illustrated: Gastrointestinal Tract
Editor Byung Ihn Choi Department of Radiology Seoul National University Hospital Seoul Republic of Korea
ISBN 978-3-642-55411-7 ISBN 978-3-642-55412-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-55412-4 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
In imaging diagnosis, each case is usually made based on an individual radiologist’s memories of past cases with similar imaging features. Sometimes, one may find a variety of imaging findings for a single disease, while, in other cases, different disease entities have similar imaging features. As I had once been a trainee in radiology myself, I am fully aware of their difficulties in dealing with the traditional multiauthor textbooks with drawn-out texts and numerous references. This issue came up during a brief conversation with Dr. Seung Hyup Kim – a uroradiology expert and my intimate colleague at Seoul National University – several years ago, and Dr. Kim’s sharing of hi
