Making Sense of Vascular Ultrasound

Ultrasound is used to demonstrate and classify numerous vascular diseases including * cerebrovascular and transcranial * lower and upper limb arterial * deep vein thrombosis * deep and superficial venous reflux * renal, hepatoportal, mesenteric and penile. Making Sense of Vascular Ultrasound is designed to give users a hands-on, practical approach to the diagnosis of vascular disease. This pocket-sized handbook provides easy to read, concise, point-form text and includes high-resolution ultrasound images and informative line diagrams. Each regional chapter covers * anatomy * pathology * clinical presentations * differential diagnosis * treatment * what the doctor needs to know * normal findings and criteria for disease as seen by ultrasound * comprehensive protocols * ultrasound images to collect for reports The book also provides an overview of the physical principles of ultrasound, the physiology of blood flow, vascular pathology, setting up a vascular ultrasound diagnostic service, and interventional vascular ultrasound procedures.