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Medical Foreign Bodies in Imaging

Head, Extremities and Spine

  • Book
  • Aug 2024

Overview

Editors:
  1. Daniela Kildal

    1. Universitätsklinikum, Ulm, Germany

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  • Correct recognition and location of foreign bodies Schematic drawings for regular position and misalignments
  • Short texts focused n the essentials
  • Everything that the specialist at the workplace needs

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Keywords

  • Foreign body in the X-ray image
  • foreign matter in x-ray
  • extraneous matter
  • Dentures
  • Prosthetics
  • foreign body in the bone
  • Foreign bodies in orthopaedics

About this book

This book contains over 1700 high quality radiological illustrations and photographs of medical foreign bodies in radiography and CT. Iatrogenically introduced foreign materials are a broad field. Physicians are increasingly confronted with medically introduced foreign bodies in radiological diagnostics. These must be identified and physicians must know and recognize the correct position or, if necessary, incorrect position as well as further complications. For the first time, this volume provides you with a guide to the diagnosis and evaluation of numerous foreign materials in the following body regions: Skull/brain: duraplasty, bone flaps, shunts and valves, coils and stents, etc. Eye: oil, fillings, artificial lenses, prostheses, cerclages and much more. Teeth: post teeth, bridges and implants, etc. Ear: Hearing aids, implants, and more. Skeleton/spine: osteosynthesis material (wires, screws, plates), vertebral body, intervertebral disc and joint replacement, scoliosis therapy, kyphoplasty, etc. You will also learn the special features in the imaging of Medication pumps Accidental foreign bodies: corpus alienum, gossypiboma, aspiration and ingestion Traumatic foreign bodies: perforation, blast injuries, gunshot wounds, etc. know. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universitätsklinikum, Ulm, Germany

    Daniela Kildal

About the editor

Daniela Kildal, MD, is a radiology specialist and senior consultant in the Department of Radiology at the Günzburg/Krumbach District Clinics, a site of the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Ulm University Hospital. She is a lecturer of e-learning courses, e.g. at Lecturio, and a long-standing lecturer for the MEDI-LEARN retreats in radiology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Medical Foreign Bodies in Imaging

  • Book Subtitle: Head, Extremities and Spine

  • Editors: Daniela Kildal

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-65448-4Due: 03 September 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-65449-1Due: 03 September 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 631

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