Errors in Abdominal Radiology

ISBN-13: 9783540540809 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 91 str.

Manuel Jr. Viamonte

Opis

This volume explains how many mistakes are caused by wrong techniques or faulty interpretation. It analyzes a number of case studies with regard to the liver, spleen and pancreas, the hollow viscus of the alimentary tract and the retroperitoneum.

Spis treści

Interpretation of Radiological Examination.- Atlas.- Hepatic Pseudolesions.- Heart Motion.- Ligamentum Teres.- Bowel Interposition.- Enlarged Umbilical Veins.- Accessory Hepatic Fissure.- Congenital Anomalies of the Liver.- Dysplastic Liver Secondary to Omphalocele.- Absent Left Lobe.- Benign Liver Tumor Simulating Metastasis.- Cavernous Hemangioma.- Cavernous Hemangioma (MRI and CT).- Liver Infarcts Simulating Metastases.- Zand Infarcts.- Fatty Metamorphosis Simulating Liver Tumors.- Diffuse Fatty Infiltration.- Single Focal Fatty Mass.- Multiple Fatty Masses.- Juxtahepatic Tumor Simulating Liver Neoplasia.- Sarcoma of IVC.- Pseudosplenomegaly.- Enlarged Left Lobe of Liver.- Enlarged Left Kidney and Displaced Spleen.- “Wandering” Spleen.- Ectopic Spleen Simulating a Right Flank Tumor.- Ectopic Spleen.- Malrotation of the Spleen Simulating Left Adrenal or Pancreatic Tumor.- Malrotated Spleen.- Accessory Spleen, Heterotopic Splenic Tissue, and Splenic Remnants Simulating Tumors.- Accessory Spleen.- Heterotopic Spleen.- Splenic Remnant.- Normal Pancreas.- Cast-Corrosion Study of Duodenum, Pancreas, Spleen, Left Adrenal Gland, and Left Kidney.- Left Pseudoadrenal Tumor.- Normal Dorsally Directed Tail of the Pancreas.- Relocated Tail of the Pancreas Following Left Nephrectomy.- Pseudoretrogastric Mass Secondary to Fat.- Abundant Pancreatic and Peripancreatric Fat.- Focal Adiposity Simulating Retroduodenal Tumor.- Retroperitoneal Pseudotumor Due to Absence of Retroperitoneal Fat.- Emaciated Patient.- Pseudogastric Dilatation.- Injected Pancreatic Pseudocyst Simulating Gastric Dilatation.- Pseudotumor of Tail of the Pancreas.- Traumatic Aneurysm of Splenic Artery.- Splenic Arteriovenous Fistula Simulating a Mass in the Tail of the Pancreas.- Gastric Pseudoneoplasia.- Gastric Varices.- Pseudointernal Hernia.- Bowel Relocation Secondary to Agenesis of the Right Kidney.- Left Pseudoparaduodenal Hernia.- Retractile Mesenteritis with Mesenteric Fatty Mass and Adherent Bowel Loops.- Pelvic Mass Thought to Be Secondary to Colonic Pathology Pelvic Kidneys.- Pseudocancer of the Large Bowel Secondary to Ischemic Colitis.- Cecal Infarction.- Chronic Ulcerative Colitis with Superimposed Ischemic Colitis.- Segmental Ischemic Colitis.- Pseudoneoplasia Caused by Ischemic Malabsorption.- Chronic Intestinal Ischemia Simulating Malignancy.- Lesions Mimicking Carcinoma.- Intramural Hematomas of the Esophagus.- Pseudocalculi.- Pseudocalculi Due to Layering of Contrast Media.- Iatrogenic Disease.- Iatrogenic Short Bowel Syndrome.- Paravertebral Pseudomass Caused by Retroperitoneal Fat.- Normal Variant.- Retroperitoneal Pseudotumor Caused by Fat.- Fat Accumulation in the Left Paravertebral Region Displacing Left Ureter.- Extrinsic Cecal Pseudomass.- Psoas Hypertrophy.- Pseudoadrenal Mass Caused by Enlarged Veins.- Patient with Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia and Portal Hypertension.- Pseudohepatic Tumor Simulated by Adrenal Tumor.- Carcinoma of the Right Adrenal Gland.- Pseudohepatomegaly Simulated by Large Adrenal Tumor.- Nonfunctioning Pheochromocytoma of the Right Adrenal Gland.- Appendix: Tables 1-6.