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Summary: This book is perfect !
Review: If you are just staring out in radiography, then this is the book you want.
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Summary: a doctor-book user
Review: While not useless, this book has several deficiencies that the serious clinician should consider before purchase: 1) the book is small (an advantage if one intends to keep it in a pocket or bag), which means that the images are small -- imagine trying to distinguish small details on an A-P lumbosacral spine view that measures 2" x 6". You CAN see the major features, but the smaller components are now rendered too small to see. 2) Despite the other reviews, image quality throughout this book is marginal. Yes, major structures are discernable, but subtle details (often the most important factors in noting early pathology or subtle injury) cannot be seen. The lateral cervical view in this book does not, for instance, show a prevertebral soft tissue shadow, and the spinolaminal line is barely discernable. All images are similarly affected -- the images are comparable to reading old-fashioned copy films rather than originals. In addition, some views are excessively collimated, such as the A-P cervical view which fails to show the full extent of the transverse processes of C7 --an important feature in evaluating thoracic outlet syndromes. 3) With few exceptions, the images in this text are of adults, not children (who have dramatically different normal radiographic features). 4) Although all views are named, no diagrams or instructions are given to indicate how a particular view was obtained. Some may argue that this text is not meant to be a positioning manual, but view names are not necessarily universal, making the task of requesting a particular view based on this text difficult, especially since this text originates from Germany. For example, a "Lauenstein" view of the hip joint is demonstrated. Most American x-ray techs have probably not heard of this term, making request of this view difficult unless one already recognizes that this is a lateral (frog) view of the hip joint. No text can possibly give all alternate terms for a view, which is why a small diagram illustrating patient positioning would make it much easier for a clinician to order a study, in any language, patterned after one demonstrated in this text.In my opinion, the shortcomings of this text are severe enough to exclude it from serious consideration.
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