Internal Medicine An Illustrated Radiological Guide
This book explains how radiology can be a powerful tool for establishing the diagnosis of many internal medicine diseases that are usually diagnosed on the basis of their laboratory or clinical presentation. It is organized in the classic fashion for inte
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Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh
Internal Medicine An Illustrated Radiological Guide
Dr. Jarrah Ali Al-Tubaikh Universitätsklinikum München Klinikum Großhadern Institut für Klinische Radiologie Marchioninistr. 15 81377 München Germany [email protected] Radiologist, Medical Illustrator Department of Diagnostic Radiology Sabah Hospital, Kuwait
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were drawn by the author.
ISBN: 978-3-642-03708-5
e-ISBN: 978-3-642-03709-2
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03709-2 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009938956 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Product liability: The publishers cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information about dosage and application contained in this book. In every individual case the user must check such information by consulting the relevant literature. Cover design: eStudioCalamar, Figueres/Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to my mother, father, family, and my beloved country “Kuwait”.
Preface
In any radiology department worldwide, around 60–70% of investigations deal with surgical cases: trauma, tumors, pre- and postsurgical assessment, surgical follow-ups, and more. In spite of that, radiology has a lot to offer in the field of internal medicine in terms of establishing, confirming, or rejecting diagnoses, or favoring differential diagnoses. Before I joined radiology, I worked as an internal physician for almost a year and almost another year and half as a general surgeon. This clinical experience leads me to look at radiological images with the eye of a radiologist and the mind of a clinician when I examine patient radiological images. I even take a history and do a clinical examination if I have the chance when the patient is in the ultrasound, CT, or MRI room. I have always believed that the radiologist’s role is not confined to writing reports, but it can be broadened to establish the diagnosis in the first hand in the same way as the clinician do. In the medical library, there are books dedicated to the clinical signs of internal medicine diseases; interestingly, there are no such boo
