Paediatric Imaging Manual
Imaging of Newborns, Infants, Children and Adolescents Children and adolescents are not simply small adults; they suffer from different diseases and require different treatments. The same is true where imaging is concerned. The diagnostic strategies – usi
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Jochen Tröger Peter Seidensticker
Paediatric Imaging Manual With 273 Figures and 18 Tables
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Jochen Tröger Head of Department of Paediatric Imaging Paediatric Radiology University of Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 153 69120 Heidelberg Germany
Peter Seidensticker Global Medical Affairs Diagnostic Imaging Bayer-Schering-Pharma AG Müller Straße 178 13342 Berlin Germany
Project coordination: Bayer-Schering-Pharma AG and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Global Medical Affairs, Diagnostic Imaging.
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Preface Imaging of newborns, infants, children and adolescents Children and adolescents are not simply small adults; they suffer from different diseases and require different treatments. The same is true where imaging is concerned. The diagnostic strategies – using identical diagnostic instruments – are different; the care prior to, during, and following the examination differs from that of adults. For this reason, there exists in many countries a specialized line of advanced training for paediatric radiology. However, students make only a peripheral acquaintance with paediatric radiology during their studies. Understandably, paediatricians lack not only the ability to interpret the images, but also knowledge about the importance of a finding for the next step toward a diagnosis and thus for treatment. And in many cases, general radiologists have insufficient contact with paediatric radiology during their course of advanced training. The aim of this book
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