Product Description
This is an up-to-date and comprehensive textbook on imaging of the foot and ankle. In the first part of the book, the various techniques and procedures employed when imaging the foot and ankle are discussed in detail. Individual chapters are devoted to radiography, arthrography and tenography, computed tomography and CT arthrography, magnetic resonance imaging and MR arthrography, ultrasonography and intra-articular injections. The second part of the book documents the application of these techniques to diverse clinical problems and diseases, including congenital and developmental disorders, trauma, tendon and ligament pathology, compressive neuropathies, infection, the diabetic foot, arthritis, metabolic bone disease, osteonecrosis and osteochondritis, and tumours and tumour-like lesions. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert, and a wealth of illustrative material is included. This book will be of great value to musculoskeletal and general radiologists and orthopedic surgeons.
Book Info
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Text provides a multimodality imaging approach to the pathology of the foot and ankle. Covers the various imaging techniques and clinical aspects of various diseases. Halftone illustrations. Expanded-outline format. DNLM: Foot Diseases--diagnosis.
