METAPHORICAL SIGNS IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY OF CHEST AND ABDOMEN

- Presents almost 400 illustrations and descriptions of classic radiological signs based on metaphors derived from our environment
- Helps readers to memorize typical and often pathognomonic patterns of disease
- Of value to both radiology residents and more experienced
When analyzing the results of diagnostic imaging studies, the radiologist traditionally makes reference to particular features representative of normality or pathology. Most of these features are associated with images of the world around us. This pictorial issue contains nearly 400 illustrations and descriptions of more than 100 classic radiological signs of chest and abdominal diseases that are not named after authors but based on metaphors derived from contemplation of our environment. By correlating the results of computed tomography with these vivid descriptive images, readers will be able to memorize typical and often pathognomonic patterns of disease more quickly and more easily. This book will be of value for both radiology residents and more experienced radiologists.
Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Abdomen - CT - Chest - Computed Tomography - Metaphoric Signs in Radiology -Radiological Signs
Related subjects » Internal Medicine - Radiology

Table of contents (86 chapters)
1.Saber-Sheath Trachea
2.Eggshell Calcification and Rim Enhancement
3.Split Pleura Sign
4.Consolidation
5.Ground-Glass Opacity and Black Bronchus Sign
6.Bat Wing, Butterfly, or Angel Wing Sign
7.Crazy-Paving Sign
8.Honeycombing
9.Vanishing Lung
10.Mosaic Perfusion or Mosaic Lung Sign
11.Air Trapping
12.Swiss Cheese Appearance
13.Feeding Vessel Sign or Fruits on the Branch Sign
14.Snowstorm Sign and Cannonball Metastases
15.Air Bronchograms and Pseudocavitations
16.Halo Sign
17.Corona Radiata or Corona Maligna and Pleural Tail Sign
18.Positive Bronchus Sign
19.Umbilical Retraction Sign or Rigler Incisura
20.Popcorn Sign and Bull’s Eye Calcifications
21.Target Calcification Sign
22.Satellite Foci and Galaxy Sign
23.Rounded Atelectasis, Comet-Tail Sign, and Crow’s Foot Sign
24.Tree-in-Bud Sign
25.Air Crescent Sign
26.Signet Ring Sign, Tram-Tracking Sign, String of Pearls, and Cluster of Grapes
27.Finger-in-Glove or Hand-in-Glove Sign
28.Atoll or Reversed Halo Sign
29.Parachute Sign
30.Atelectasis Discoidea, Atelectasis Lamellosa, or Platelike Atelectasis
31.Mesa, Tafelberg, or Table Mountain Sign
32.Pleural Mouse, Fibrin Body, Fibrin Ball, and Thoracolith
33.Draped Aorta Sign
34.Sentinel Clot Sign
35.Intimal Flap and Beak Sign
36.Cobweb Sign and Mercedes-Benz Sign
37.Hyperdense Crescent Sign and Beret Sign
38.Web Sign and White (Calcified) Pulmonary Arteries
39.Marble Liver Sign or Fatty Liver (Foie Gras)
40.Geographic Liver
41.Boxing Glove Sign
42.Confluent Fibrosis
43.Bull’s Eye Sign
44.Lacelike Fibrosis and Salt and Pepper Sign
45.White Liver Sign
46.Periportal Halo
47.Ripples in the Water Sign or Target Sign
48.Cluster of Grapes Sign
49.Water Lily Sign or Snake Sign
50.Bright Dot Sign and Iris or Eye Diaphragm Sign
51.Stellate Scar Sign or Spoke-Wheel Pattern
52.Funeral Frame Sign, Rim Enhancement, and Target-Like Appearance
53.Double Duct Sign
54.Central Dot Sign
55.Mercedes-Benz Sign
56.Porcelain or Incrusted Gallbladder Sign
57.Annular Pancreas
58.Lake Chain Sign or String of Beads Sign and Pancreas with Sausage-Like Form and Hypodense Halo
59.Honeycomb or Spongelike Mass and Spoke-Wheel Sign
60.Fetal Lobulation or Lobation and Column of Bertin Hypertrophy
61.Horseshoe Kidney
62.White Pyramids Sign
63.Claw Sign or Beak Sign
64.Faceless Kidney Sign
65.Swiss Cheese Sign
66.Stellate Scar Sign or Starlike Scar Sign and Spoke-Wheel Pattern
67.Fan Sign, Wedge-Shaped or Striated Enhancement, and Patchy Nephrogram
68.Medullary Sponge Kidney and Paintbrush Appearance
69.Putty Kidney Sign
70.Cortical Rim Sign and Reversed Rim Sign
71.String of Beads Sign or String of Pearls Sign
72.Soft Tissue Rim Sign and Comet Sign
73.Whirlpool, Whirl, Swirl, and Whirling Sign
74.Comb Sign
75.Stratified Attenuation, Double Halo Sign, and Target Sign
76.Target Sign, Sausage-Shaped Mass, and Reniform or Kidney-Shaped Bowel
77.Fat Halo Sign
78.Accordion Sign
79.Rim Enhancement or Target Sign
80.Soap Bubble Appearance and Small Bowel Feces Sign
81.Ring Sign
82.Omental Cake Sign
83.Sandwich Sign
84.Misty Mesentery Sign and Fat Halo Sign
85.Dirty Fat Sign
86.Hematocrit Sign