CT of the Acute Abdomen
CT of the Acute Abdomen provides an in-depth and comprehensive account of the use of CT in patients with acute abdomen. Recent significant developments in CT that are of relevance in imaging of the acute abdomen, including multislice CT and multiplanar re
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Series Editors Albert L. Baert Maximilian F. Reiser Hedvig Hricak Michael Knauth
Editorial Board Andy Adam, London Fred Avni, Brussels Richard L. Baron, Chicago Carlo Bartolozzi, Pisa George S. Bisset, Durham A. Mark Davies, Birmingham William P. Dillon, San Francisco D. David Dershaw, New York Sam Sanjiv Gambhir, Stanford Nicolas Grenier, Bordeaux Gertraud Heinz-Peer, Vienna Robert Hermans, Leuven Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Heidelberg Theresa McLoud, Boston Konstantin Nikolaou, Munich Caroline Reinhold, Montreal Donald Resnick, San Diego Rüdiger Schulz-Wendtland, Erlangen Stephen Solomon, New York Richard D. White, Columbus
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Patrice Taourel Editors
CT of the Acute Abdomen Foreword by Albert L. Baert
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Editor Prof. Dr. Patrice Taourel Imagerie Médicale Hôpital Lapeyronie avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud 371 34295 Montpellier CX 5 France e-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0942-5373 ISBN 978-3-540-89231-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-89232-8
e-ISBN 978-3-540-89232-8
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Foreword
Radiological imaging plays a key role in the correct differential diagnosis and the decision-making for medical or surgical treatment of acute abdominal conditions. For many decades and until the advent of CT, standard radiography was the main imaging tool to guide clinicians towards the correct management of the patients. Notwithstanding the sophisticated rules and guidelines that were invented and developed over the years by many highly talented radiologists, for the Optimal interpretation of the standard radiogram of the abdomen; the important limitations of this diagnostic tool, which could mostly provide only indirect evidence for the cause or the si
