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Medical Imaging: An Illustrated Colour Text - Peter Renton


Rating: Rating: 2 out of 5

Pros:

A useful revision aid; you can test yourself in the run up to the exams

Cons:

Probably not worth buying; you might not use it more than once

Rough Price:
£20.00

ISBN:
044307030X

Publisher:
Churchill Livingstone

 

Review:

Medical Imaging is a book that I expected a lot from. It comes from the An Illustrated Colour Text series that contains many useful titles, not least of which is the Neuroanatomy one (a.k.a. the idiot’s guide to Control and Movement for anyone who’s done second year!). Despite starting with a silly quote: “More than the calf yearns to suck, does the cow yearn to suckle”, the book soon improves. Each chapter looks at the different medical or surgical specialties and appropriate investigative techniques to employ for various common conditions. The pictures themselves are well described and arrows depict all the important features (just in case you manage to read the descriptions and still not have the foggiest idea what’s going on). Each chapter has clear and concise summary boxes of the key issues.

All in all, this is a useful introduction to imaging techniques and has all the points needed to help you bluff your way through any radiology questions that you might be asked on clinical attachments but would benefit from larger illustrations for those of us that don’t normally carry around a magnifying glass.

Reviewed By: Ian Anderson (25.11.2004)

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