Radiological Imaging of the Digestive Tract in Infants and Children

This comprehensive, up-to-date and extensively illustrated volume offers a multimodality approach to gastrointestinal imaging in children and infants. The role of each of the currently available imaging techniques is considered carefully, and diagnostic d

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MEDICAL RADIOLOGY

Diagnostic Imaging Editors: A. L. Baert, Leuven M. Knauth, Göttingen K. Sartor, Heidelberg

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A. S. Devos · J. G. Blickman (Eds.)

Radiological Imaging of the Digestive Tract in Infants and Children With Contributions by T. Berrocal · S. A. Connolly · G. del Pozzo · R. B. J. Glass · C. M. Hall · Y. L. Hoogeveen M. Hiorns · R. M. Jiménez · J. S. Laméris · M. Meradji · E. Nijs · R. R. van Rijn Foreword by

A. L. Baert

With 227 Figures in 500 Separate Illustrations, 43 in Color

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Annick S. Devos, MD Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital Dr. Molewaterplein 40 P. O. Box 1738 3000 DR. Rotterdam The Netherlands

Johan G. Blickman, MD, PhD, FACR Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiology University Hospital Nijmegen UMC Nijmegen-667 P. O. Box 9101 Geert Groteplein 10 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands

Medical Radiology · Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology Series Editors: A. L. Baert · L. W. Brady · H.-P. Heilmann · M. Knauth · M. Molls · C. Nieder · K. Sartor Continuation of Handbuch der medizinischen Radiologie Encyclopedia of Medical Radiology

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005935285

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Foreword

Although conventional radiography and barium studies still play an important role in radiological imaging of the digestive tract in infants and children, the new crosssectional methods based on ultrasound, CT and, to a lesser extent, MRI have gained considerable importance in this radiological field during recent years. This volume provides a much needed update on our knowl