Neuroradiology: The Requisites by Robert I. Grossman, David M. Yousem

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Synopsis

This volume in the popular Requisites in Radiology series concisely presents all of today's need-to-know information in neuroradiology. Completely revised and updated, it progresses from the basics of imaging techniques and anatomy to brain diseases and neurodegenerative and congenital abnormalities. It then discusses the subsites of neuroradiology, the head and neck, and degenerative and non-degenerative diseases of the spine. This compact, clinically oriented, easy-to-read format makes it exceptionally useful as a study tool for boards and the CAQ exam for the subspecialty.

• Features all the elements of previous Requisites volumes-including summaries of major points, boxed information, highlights, and a focus on the most necessary material.
• Presents the basic clinical, factual, and interpretative material required for clinical practice.
• Offers the authors' personal perspectives and experiences on the approach and pitfalls in neuroradiology.

• Updates all information including nuclear medicine applications for thyroid and PTH along with ocular sonography, temporal bone anatomy, and spine trauma.
• Expands the chapter on techniques to include new technologies such as FLAIR sequences, functional MRI, and spiral CT.
• Includes new differential diagnosis tables and more diagrams on base of skull anatomy.
• Offers over 725 illustrations, 50% of them new.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Travis Scott Graham, MD (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center)
Description:This is the second edition of a welcome addition to the subspecialty of neuroradiology, especially in light of all that has happened in the field since 1994 when the first edition was published. This comprehensive book covers not only the pathology of the head, neck and spine but also neuroanatomy, as well as offering lessons on techniques for neuroimaging.
Purpose:This is designed to be a fairly comprehensive and updated text for a wide range of readers with varying degrees of knowledge and experience.
Audience:The book accomplishes its goals, providing information useful to a broad spectrum of readers, from the first year resident becoming acquainted with the subspecialty of neuroradiology to the experienced neuroradiology attending or practitioner. Our clinical colleagues including neurologists, neurosurgeons, and even physician assistants involved in clinical practice can benefit from this book. The authors have a high degree of credibility.
Features:This book provides a nice outline and, more specifically, a framework to use to increase one's understanding of this topic. Of course, the book is very readable thanks to its light tone, and well indexed so that referencing the text is much easier. Its size may be somewhat intimidating as it seems bigger and heavier than others in this series.
Assessment:This excellent book is a "must have" for the radiology resident and any neuroradiology departmental library. Not only is it a welcome addition to the field, but one that is sorely needed in light ofongoing advances and a lack of updated neuroradiology texts out there. From head to conus, the second edition of this book gives the reader much food for thought (see chapter 3) at the smorgasbord that is neuroradiology.

Biography

Louis Marx Professor of Radiology; Chairman of the Department of Radiology; Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology and Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, US

Professor, Department of Radiology; Vice Chairman of Program Development; Director of Neuroradiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, US