This highly illustrated book, complete with comprehensive clinical references and annotated images, will serve as a leading text to educate head and neck surgeons, endocrinologists, and radiologists on the basics and nuances of thyroid and parathyroid ultrasound. It emphasizes the use of ultrasound as an office-based modality by clinicians and radiologists who actively care for this special set of patients. This text uniquely combines the collaboration between a clinician/surgeon and radiologist who share their extensive experience in head and neck ultrasound.
Table of Content
Section 01: History and Basic Concepts.- 1.The History of Clinical Ultrasound.- 2.Physics & Principles of Ultrasound.- 3.Practical Concepts of Ultrasound.- Section 02: Thyroid and Parathryoid Glands.- 4.Sonography of the Normal Thyroid.- 5.Benign Thyroid Conditions.- 6.Malignant Thyroid Conditions.- 7.Ultrasound Surveillance.- 8.Parathyroid Ultrasound.- 9.Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology.- Section 03: Lymph Nodes and the Neck.- 10.Lymph Nodes.- 11.Benign Clinical Conditions in the Adjacent Neck.- Section 04: New Advances in Applied Ultrasound.- 12.Thryoid Elsatography.- 13.Percutaneous Ethanol Injection for Thyroid and Parathyroid Disorders.- 14.Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) and Ultrasound-guided Minimally Invasive Therapy for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Focal Thyroid Lesions.
About the author
Sofferman, Robert (Editor), University of Vermont School of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA Ahuja, Anil (Editor), Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong, New Territories (N.T.)
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