This richly illustrated book is devoted to radiologists ever-growing interest in discovering metaphors relevant for diagnostic imaging. In its second and completely revised edition, the book contains nearly 800 illustrations and descriptions of about 200 classic radiological signs of chest and abdominal diseases. These signs are based on metaphors from our daily environment and the world around us.
By correlating the results of Computed Tomography (CT) with these vivid and descriptive images, readers will be able to memorize typical and often pathognomonic patterns of disease more quickly and easily. This book will be of value to both radiology residents and more experienced radiologists consultants.
Chapter
1. Saber-Sheath Trachea Or Scabbard Deformation.
Chapter
2.
Eggshell Calcification And Rim Enhancement.
Chapter
3. Split-Pleura Sign.-
Chapter
4. Consolidation, Bulging Fissure Sign Or Lobar Consolidation And Air
Bronchograms Sign Or Open Bronchus Sign.
Chapter
5. Ground-Glass Opacity And
Dark Bronchus Sign.
Chapter
6. Bat Wing, Butterfly Or Angel Wing Sign.-
Chapter
7. Intralobular Gradient Resembling Traditional Chinese Landscape
Paintings Of Karst Mountain Tops (Revised).
Chapter
8. Crazy Paving Sign Or
Paving Stone Sign.
Chapter
9. Honeycomb Lung.
Chapter
10. Moth-Eaten Cloth
Sign.
Chapter
11. Vanishing Lung And Double-Wall Sign.
Chapter
12. Mosaic
Perfusion Or Mosaic Lung Sign.
Chapter
13. Air Trapping.
Chapter
14. Swiss
Cheese Appearance And Head Cheese Sign.
Chapter
15. Feeding Vessel Sign Or
Fruits On The Branch Sign.
Chapter
16. Miliary Dissemination, Snowstorm Sign
And Cannonball Metastases.
Chapter
17. Sandstorm Sign, Black Pleural Line
And Stony Lung Signs.
Chapter
18. Pseudocavitations And Cheerios Sign Or
Puncher Sign.
Chapter
19. Halo Sign.
Chapter
20. Sunburst Sign, Corona
Radiata Or Corona Maligna Sign.
Chapter
21. Tail Sign, Pleural Tags,
RabbitS Ears, Pleural Tail Sign.
Chapter
22. Positive Bronchus Sign And
Navel-Like Retraction, Rigler Notch Sign, Rigler Sign.
Chapter
23. Popcorn
Calcification, Target Calcification And BullS-Eye Calcification.
Chapter
24. Birds On A Wire.
Chapter
25. Galaxy Sign.
Chapter
26. Potato Nodes,
Sarcoid-Type Adenopathy, 1-2-3 Pattern, Pawnbroker'S Sign And Cluster Of
Black Pearls Sign.
Chapter
27. Rounded Atelectasis, Comet-Tail Sign And
Crow'S Foot Sign.
Chapter
28. Tree-In-Bud Sign Or Toy «Jacks».
Chapter
29.
Air Crescent, Air Sickle Sign Or Monod Sign, Rattle Sign.
Chapter
30. Signet
Ring Sign, Tram-Tracking Sign (Tram Lines), String Of Pearls (String Of
Cysts) And Cluster Of Grapes (Cluster Of Cysts).
Chapter
31. Peribronchial
Cuffing Or Donut Sign.
Chapter
32. Gloved-Fingers, Finger-In-Glove Or
Hand-In-Glove Sign.
Chapter
33. Reversed Halo Or Atoll Sign And BirdS Nest
Sign (Vogelnest).
Chapter
34. Arcade-Like Sign Or Perilobular Pattern, Ring
Of Fire And Target Sign.
Chapter
35. Dry Leaf Sign.
Chapter
36. HamptonS
Hump And Melting Sign (Melting Ice Cubes), Parachute Sign.
Chapter
37.
Discoid (Linear, Plate Or Band) Atelectasis, Fleischner Lines.
Chapter
38.
Mesa, Tafelberg Or Table Mountain Sign.
Chapter
39. Pleural Mouse, Fibrin
Body, Fibrin Ball And Thoracolith.
Chapter
40. Tip Of The Iceberg Sign.-
Chapter
41. Horseshoe Lung And Pig Bronchus Or Bronchus Suis.
Chapter
42.
Ring Around Artery Sign, Double Bronchial Wall Sign.
Chapter
43. Coffee-Bean
And Snake-Jaws Appearances.
Chapter
44. Egg And Banana Sign.
Chapter
45.
Railway Track Sign, Polo Mint Sign, Knuckle Sign, Saddle Embolism And
Tadpole.
Chapter
46. Pulmonary Arterial Bands And Webs.
Chapter
47. White
Pulmonary Arteries.
Chapter
48. Panzerherz (Armoured Heart).
Chapter
49.
Dynamic Mercedes Benz Sign.
Chapter
50. Sentinel Clot Sign And Hematocrit
Effect.
Chapter
51. Clefts Of The Thrombus With Seeping Blood (Thrombus
Fissuration) And High-Attenuating (Hyperdense) Crescent Sign.
Chapter
52. A
Tangential Calcium Sign, Daughter Aneurysms And Beret Sign Or Mushroom Sign.-
Chapter
53. Draped Aorta Sign.
Chapter
54. Intimal Flap, Tennis Ball Sign,
Beak Sign And Cobweb Sign.
Chapter
55. Fish Hook.
Chapter
56. String Of
Beads, Accordion-Pleating Or String Of Short Sausages.
Chapter
57. Fatty
Liver (Foie Gras), Marble Liver And Geographic Liver.
Chapter
58. White
Liver Sign.
Chapter
59. Periportal Halo, Periportal Rings Or Collars And
Periportal Tracking (Tram Lines).
Chapter
60. Boxing Glove Sign, Confluent
Fibrosis, Lacework Fibrosis, Salt And Pepper Sign, BullS Eye Sign.
Chapter
61. Cluster Or Cluster Of Grapes Sign And Circles (Ripples) On The Water Or
Double Target Sign.
Chapter
62. Floating Membranes, Snake (Or Serpent) Sign
Or Water Lily (Camalote) Sign.
Chapter
63. Iris Or Eye Diaphragm Sign, Blood
Pool, Bright Dot Sign, Peripheral Puddles Pattern And Clouds Of Contrast
Enhancement.
Chapter
64. Stellate Scar Sign Or Fibrous Body And Spoke-Wheel
Pattern Or Spider-Like Appearence.
Chapter
65. Funeral Frame Sign, Complete
Ring Or Rim Pattern.
Chapter
66. Scalloping Of The Liver And Spleen.-
Chapter
67. Central Dot Sign.
Chapter
68. Hepatic Hot Spot Or Hot Quadrate
Sign.
Chapter
69. Bear Claw Lacerations.
Chapter
70. Double Duct Sign.-
Chapter
71. Double Wall Sign.
Chapter
72. Arch Bridge Or Tensile Gallbladder
Fundus Sign.
Chapter
73. Mercedes-Benz Sign.
Chapter
74. Porcelain Or
Incrusted Bludder Sign.
Chapter
75. Annular Pancreas And Crocodile Jaw Sign,
Portal Annular Pancreas.
Chapter
76. Chain Of Lakes Sign Or String Of Beads
And Sausage-Like Form Of Pancreas With Hypodence Rim.
Chapter
77. Spoke
Wheel Sign Or Stellate Scar, Honeycomb Or Sponge-Like Mass.
Chapter
78. Baby
Kidney (Persistent Fetal Lobulation) And Hypertrophied Column Of Bertin
(Prominent Column Of Bertin).
Chapter
79. Dromedary Hump, Horseshoe And
Pancake Kidneys.
Chapter
80. Spur, Claw Or Beak Sign.
Chapter
81. Faceless
Kidney Sign And Kippah (Skullcap Or Yarmulke) Sign.
Chapter
82. White
Pyramids Sign.
Chapter
83. Stellate Scar Sign, Spoke-Wheel Pattern And
Segmental Enhancement Inversion.
Chapter
84. Swiss Cheese Sign (Kidneys).-
Chapter
85. Putty-Like Kidney Sign.
Chapter
86. Crescent Sign.
Chapter
87.
Fan (Ragged Fan) Sign, Wedge-Shaped Or Striated Nephrogram And Spotted
(Patchy) Nephrogram].
Chapter
88. Reverse Rim Sign And Tramline
Calcification.
Chapter
89. The Arterial Cut-Off Sign And The Cortical Rim
Sign Or Rim Nephrogram.
Chapter
90. Bear Paw Sign.
Chapter
91. Staghorn
(Coral) Calculi, ChildS Toy «Jacks», Mulberry Stones, Seed Calculi And Milk
Of Calcium.
Chapter
92. Ball-On-Tee (The Golf Ball-On-Tee Appearance) Or Egg
In Cup Appearance, Lobster Claw, And Signet Ring Appearances Or Bottle
Opener.
Chapter
93. Pyramidal Blush, Sunburst Or Spraylike Pattern,
Paintbrush Appearance And Bouquet Of Flowers Appearance.
Chapter
94. The
Soft-Tissue Rim Sign And The Comet Tail Sign Or Tail Sign (True And Pseudo).-
Chapter
95. Cobra Head Or Spring Onion Sign.
Chapter
96. Napoleon'S Hat,
Ballerina Legs, Sperm, Tadpole, Sperochete And Sausage-Like Deformity.-
Chapter
97. Comb Sign, Spray, Constellation And Vascular Jejunization Of The
Ileum.
Chapter
98. Stratified Attenuation, Water Halo Sign (Double Halo Sign
And Target Sign).
Chapter
99. Fat Halo Sign (Submucosal Fat Accumulation).-
Chapter
100. Accordion Sign (Concertina Sign).
Chapter
101. The Small Bowel
Faeces Sign.
Chapter
102. Target Sign, Sausage-Shaped (Layering Or
Stratification) And Reniform Bowel.
Chapter
103. Whirlpool Or Whirl, Swirl,
Whirling Sign.
Chapter
104. Rim Enhancement Or Target Sign.
Chapter
105.
Hyperattenuating Ring Sign.
Chapter
106. Omental Cake Sign.
Chapter
107.
Sandwich Or Hamburger Sign.
Chapter
108. Dirty Fat Sign.
Chapter
109. Misty
Mesentery Sign And Fat Halo Sign Or Fat Ring Sign.
Chapter
110. Index.
Professor Andrey Leonidovich Yudin is the Head of the Department of Radiation Diagnostics and Therapy at the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University in Moscow since 1994. He specializes in modern technologies of radiology, including interventional radiology, and studies the possibility of an integral approach to the use of different research methods. Professor Yudin is a Member of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), a Member of the Russian society of radiology, and the Author of 250 scientific and educational works in Russian and international publications.
