In any radiology department worldwide, around 60–70% of investigations deal with surgical cases: trauma, tumors, pre- and postsurgical assessment, surgical follow-ups, and more. In spite of that, radiology has a lot to offer in the ? eld of internal medicine in terms of establishing, con? rming, or rejecting diagnoses, or favoring differential diagnoses. Before I joined radiology, I worked as an internal physician for almost a year and almost another year and half as a general surgeon. This clinical experience leads me to look at radiological images with the eye of a radiologist and the mind of a clinician when I examine patient radiological images. I even take a history and do a clinical examination if I have the chance when the patient is in the ultrasound, CT, or MRI room. I have always believed that the radiologist’s role is not con? ned to writing reports, but it can be broadened to establish the diagnosis in the ? rst hand in the same way as the clinician do. In the medical library, there are books dedicated to the clinical signs of internal medicine diseases; interestingly, there are no such books in the radiology library.
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Gastroenterology.- Liver Cirrhosis.- Fatty Liver Disease (Liver Steatosis).- Recurrent Epigastric Pain.- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.- Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.- Neurology.- Stroke (Brain Infarction).- Stroke Diseases and Syndromes.- Intracranial Hemorrhage.- Meningitis.- Encephalitis.- Epilepsy.- Headache.- Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases.- Parkinsonism.- Dementia.- Huntington’s Disease.- Heat Stroke (Pancerebellar Syndrome).- Pulmonology.- Pleural Diseases.- Alveolar Lung Diseases.- Atelectasis (Lung Collapse).- Sarcoidosis.- Emphysema.- Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias.- Histiocytoses.- Hemoptysis.- Cardiology.- Acute Chest Pain.- Diseases of the Great Vessels.- Myocardial Diseases (Cardiomyopathies).- Endocarditis.- Pericardial Diseases.- Nephrology.- Hypertension.- Polycystic Kidney Disease.- Endocrinology and Metabolism.- Grave’s Disease (Hyperthyroidism).- Hyperparathyroidism.- Growth Hormone Diseases.- Osteoporosis.- Rickets and Osteomalacia.- Scurvy.- Fluorosis.- Lead Poisoning (Plumbism).- Adrenal Glands Abnormalities.- Sex Hormones Abnormalities.- Sheehan Syndrome (Postpartum Hypopituitarism).- Rheumatology.- Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Ankylosing Spondylitis (Marie–Strümpell Disease).- Gout Arthritis.- CPPD and HADD.- Osteoarthritis.- Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis.- Baastrup’s Disease (Spinout Process Impingement Syndrome).- Scheuermann’s Disease (Juvenile Kyphosis Dorsalis).- Sjögren Syndrome (Myoepithelial Sialadenitis).- Behçet Disease.- Sharp Syndrome (Mixed Connective Tissue Disease).- Hematology.- Hemosiderosis and Hemochromatosis.- ?-Thalassemia Major (Cooley’s Anemia).- Sickle Cell Disease.- Pernicious Anemia.- Hemophilia.- Lymphomas.- Leukemia.- Multiple Myeloma (Khaler’s Disease).- Amyloidosis.- Evans’ Syndrome.- Other Lymphatic Disorders.- Dermatology.- Scleroderma (Systemic Sclerosis).- Lipoid Proteinosis (Urbach-Weithe Disease).- Dermatomyositis.- Ochronosis (Alkaptonuria).- Diabetology.- Diabetic Hand and Diabetic Foot.- Diabetic Brain and Nervous System.- Diabetic Syndromes.- Diabetes Insipidus.- Obesity, Gastric Banding, and Liposuction.- Lipoatrophic–Lipodystrophic Syndromes.- Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine.- Fever.- Giardiasis.- Amebiasis.- Leprosy (Hansen Disease).- Toxoplasmosis.- Brucellosis (Malta Fever).- Neurocysticercosis.- Ascariasis.- Guinea Worm Disease (Dracunculiasis).- Hydatid Cyst (Echinococcosis).- Chagas’ Disease (American Trypanosoma).- Schistosomiasis (Bilharziasis).- Tuberculosis.- Typhoid Fever (Salmonellosis).- Malaria.- Animal Bites and Stings.