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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 617.5407572 EAN: 9780683304732 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0683304739 Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 271 Publication Date: January 15, 2002 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Written by faculty members and residents, this volume of the popular LWW Teaching File Series is an excellent aid for radiology residents preparing for oral board exams. It presents 150 well-illustrated cases, drawn from teaching files in major medical centers, that cover all common chest diseases and current imaging modalities. Cases are presented as unknowns in a consistent format-images and a brief clinical history are followed by relevant findings, differential diagnosis, final diagnosis, and a discussion. This format enables readers to hone their diagnostic reasoning skills and answer exam questions with confidence. Cases are grouped according to pattern of radiographic appearance. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Chest Radiology, Teaching file with few lessons to learnOrganization of the book is good, breaking the cases into their respective sections. However, that is the best part of this text. Histories are virtually nondescript and ambiguous and do not lead the reader to the diagnosis. Many images are of low quality (esp. CT) and descriptors in the 'imaging findings' include descriptions of things that were not evident or even included in the provided images. Radiographs are not labeled as being 'prior exam' or temporally sequential which ... Read More Rating:  - recent review from the Journal CHESTrecent review... "The greatest strength of this book lies in its organization, which consists of an intelligent grouping of radiologic patterns. Hence, in many ways it is a textbook of differential diagnosis that presents diseases with overlapping radiologic patterns and offers 'pearls' with regard to how to distinguish among them. This approach emphasizes how best to order one's differential diagnoses and is the most important attribute of this volume." -Chest, Feb 2004; 125: 803.(Journal ... Read More Rating: - recommended for boardsThis book gives lots of very nice differentials and examples. I would recommend it for studying for the orals! Rating:  - one more thingThis book has a paucity of differential diagnostic lists. Most cases in chest are nonspecific and forming a differential diagnosis is a necessary skill. This book lacks that. Most times, it gives one specific diagnosis for a very nonspecific image and clinical history. Not very useful. Rating: - Don't Buy This Book!I hope anyone who is planning on buying this book reads this review first. This is book is not worth the money. It is poorly organized. The discussions are nonspecific and at times non sensical. There is a lack of quality images that demonstrate findings. For example, on case 29, Wegener's. The only image provided is a CT scan with interstitial disease. However, the classic findings were of wegener's was only described, but no images! Is interstitial disease even classic for wegener's?! Read More 
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