Product Description

A new edition in the highly successful Made Easy 'series', this is a small pocketbook that will help the junior doctor in the interpretation of the chest X-ray. It describes the range of conditions likely to be encountered on the wards and guides the doctor through the process of examining and interpreting the film based on the appearance of the abnormality shown. It then assists the doctor in determining the nature of the abnormality and points the clinician towards possible differential diagnosis.

The book covers the range of common radiological problems the junior doctors are faced with, starting with the appearance of the film, e.g. showing generalised shadowing or a coin lesion. It gives advice on how to examine an X-ray, how to check its technical quality and how to identify where the lesion is. All the X-rays are accompanied by a simple line diagram outlining where the abnormality is.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12286 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review
"This book is both instructive and a delight to read. How does it compare with similar books? There are no similar books. It is unique. Those who read and use this carefully written and illustrated book will emerge wiser and more skilful at interpreting one of the most interesting and most useful investigations at our disposal. I believe that the reader of this book will enjoy getting to grips with the chest X-ray and, in the process, become a better practitioner. This book is good value and would be useful for medical students, junior doctors, clinical nurses, physiotherapists and all those practitioners in primary care."Update (Journal for CME for GPs)
is a very useful and brief guide to interpreting the chest X-ray, aimed primarily at medical students and junior doctors. Like all good teachers, the authors have succeeded in making interpretation of the chest X-ray very simple and logical. They have dispensed with some confusing old-fashioned terminology and in the process helped to demystify the interpretation of the chest film. This is a concise, well-written, well-illustrated and, most importantly, pocket-sized book which medical students and junior doctors should find extremely useful."British Journal of Hospital Medicine

About the Author
This team of authors was brought together for the first edition of this book. All are consultants in chest medicine or radiology; this mixture of disciplines contributed to the initial success of "Easy".

Customer Reviews

Good - shame it's too short
A well written book, with clear pictures and a logical approach. One is left with the only wish to have yet more practical examples. Very good value for money. I would recommend it to any medical student and junior doctor.

Brilliant short textbook
I needed this book and kind of missed it for quite a while. Since I moved from Germany into England I did not really now how you guys present xrays, and I was a bit helpless if I had to do it on the wardrounds. After looking around for quite a while I found this little booklet, and it was the perfect solution for my problems.

I learned how to present xrays, and all the important words I need to learn.

It is not a radiology textbook, but I did not need it for that.

It is more a textbook on how to learn a very structured approach on presenting different kinds of xrays.

I would recommend it for anybody who is supposed to read xrays in an intelligent way!

Excellent book !
Excellent book. Films are a little small (to be expected with a book of this size) and some of the fine detail is a little hard to see. That said, the text is excellent and it is approached in a structured and logical way. Perhaps it could expand on some more clinical aspects of the films (e.g. causes of consolidation etc) but I suppose that is outside the scope of this book.

Jeremy Lewis, Medical Student, Nottingham