Clinical Guide to Ultrasonography

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Summary: THE best pathology & correlative resource
Review: I am about to finish ultrasound school and sit for my registries. I've been unimpressed with pathology references except for Roger Sanders' Clinical Ultrasound. I like that book because it groups subject matter by what we'd find on the patient requisition. The layout is logical and leads to clinical correlation.

Henningsen's book is laid out in this manner. My instructor and Program Director who also wrote a chapter in the book (multifetal gestations) recommended it to me soon after it came out, at a point in my education where I felt like I was at the bottom of the Sonographic Pathology Well. I had scored very low on a test and my instructor suggested this book as a way of "thinking backwards," not starting with an image or the name of a pathology, but of the chief complaint or the clinical presentaion. Hennigsen is a good writer, the editing is excellent, the images clear and helpful.

In sum, this book is beginning to enable me to practice the art of differential diagnosis. It's the best ultrasound book I have or have read, and I've read most of them. By the way, after working through the relevant chapters, my scores improved by 15--20 points on exams.