This volume is the latest in the series Exercises in Radio logical Diagnosis, launched by the Strasbourg School of Radio logy. Further volumes on the facial bones, senology, and abdominal tomography are in preparation. Jean-Louis Dietemann has over a decade's experience of radiodiagnosis of the skull, and has already proven his talents as a teacher with his earlier books on the sella turcica and on carotid angiography. The present volume will assuredly be a great success and will enhance the series. Professor A. W ACKENHEIM Hospices Civils de Strasbourg Centre Hospitalier Regional Service de...

These exercises are meant for students and practitioners who wish to familiarize themselves with the normal and pathologieal computerized tomographie radioanatomy of the abdomen. The iconography is suffieiently characteristic to be read without the help of clinical or biological data. It comprises both normal and pathologie findings. Analysis of scans is comprised of two steps. The first part consists of the detailed study of normal scans, whieh serve as a reference. For this, eight main slice levels have been considered necessary and sufficient: neces sary since a certain number of slices...

Like my first book of exercises in radiological diagnosis con cerning the vertebrae in adults, the first part of this book consists of an atlas of images ready for immanent reading. The images are numbered, each number corresponding to a case. The second part comprises the corresponding comments, critical interpretations, and drawings (using the same num bers as the corresponding radiographs in the first part). I hope that this second booklet will be as appreciated as was the first, which was published in four languages (Radio diagnosis of the Vertebrae in Adults. Springer, Berlin Hei delberg...