Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic illness with progressive obstruction of the airways which cannot be completely reversed with medication based on bronchodilators or…
Nonvascular Interventions Conduct of percutaneous diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the thorax is long established. These are carried out under the guidance of different imaging modalities (fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT, including…
Immunologic Diseases of the Lung Immunologic diseases of the lung may present in the bronchial system, lung parenchyma, and the pulmonary vessels. The classification system used in this book with…
Basic Anatomy Contrary to likely expectations, this present chapter does not give a comprehensive description of the anatomy of the chest organs. Rather, it highlights a number of anatomic landmarks…
General Symptomatology 3.1 Projection Radiography 3.1.1 Generic Signs The Fleischner Society has incorporated a number of generally accepted radiologic signs into its Glossary of Terms for Thoracic Imaging (see Chapter…
Examination Technique This chapter describes specific aspects of examining the chest organs with the different imaging modalities. It is outside the scope of this textbook to give a comprehensive overview…
Indications This chapter summarizes fundamental indications for diagnostic radiologic imaging for various diseases. The indications listed in the following tables are intended as a guide and are not a substitute…
Technical Basics of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging 3.1 Echocardiography Hashim Abdul-Khaliq Matthias Gutberlet 3.1.1 Introduction Echocardiography, which was introduced in the 1950s, leverages the physical characteristics of ultrasound. Echocardiography1 uses…
Standard Values and Formulas Hashim Abdul-Khaliq Petra Böttler Samir Sarikouch 5.1 Preliminary Remarks This chapter is intended only to provide a brief overview of common standard values tables. The fundamental…
