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Highly practical and user-friendly, ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis, third edition, helps you reach accurate, clinically useful differential diagnoses in your everyday practice. It presents the most useful differential diagnoses for each region of the abdomen and pelvis, grouped according to anatomic location, generic imaging findings, modality-specific findings, or clinical-based indications. Each differential diagnosis includes several high-quality, succinctly annotated images; a list of diagnostic possibilities sorted as common, less common, and rare but important; and brief, bulleted text offering helpful diagnostic clues. It's an excellent resource for subspecialty abdominal imagers as well as general radiologists and trainees, providing invaluable assistance in reaching logical, on-target differential diagnoses based on key imaging findings and clinical details. Covers 175 of the most common diagnostic challenges in abdominal and pelvic imaging, enhanced by more than 2,100 radiologic images, full-color illustrations, clinical and histologic photographs, and gross pathology images  Provides a quick review of the salient features of each entity, differentiating features from other similar-appearing abnormalities  Includes new chapters on hematuria, flank pain, acute scrotal pain, and seminal vesicle  Adds greater focus to advancing prostate imaging methods with expanded content on lesions in the peripheral zone and lesions in the transition zone, as well as new coverage of transplant imaging  Contains updates to numerous classifications, including LI-RADS for liver, O-RADS for ovarian masses, and the Tanaka classification for pancreatic cysts  Features new MR examples and MR-specific diagnoses throughout, plus new differentials for contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings related to liver and kidney lesions  Includes the enhanced eBook version, which allows you to search all text, figures, and references on a variety of devices 

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Dr. Atif Zaheer has a specialty focus on CT, MR, and US of the abdomen and pelvis. He is Professor of Radiology, Oncology and Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Siva Raman is a board-certified radiologist who gained his subspecialty expertise in thoracoabdominal imaging during a fellowship at Stanford University, and intern residency at UC Davis Medical Center. He attended Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Dr. Raman is a radiologist at Bay Imaging Consultants in Walnut Creek, California, with a subspecialty focus on thoracoabdominal imaging Dr. Bryan Foster is a body imaging radiologist with a subspecialty focus on oncologic, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, prostate, and small bowel imaging. Dr. Foster is the Professor of Radiology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, and performs complex image-guided biopsies; he also performs CEUS imaging and US elastography. Dr. Foster is skilled in all facets of imaging including radiography, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT, and MRI. His interests include oncologic, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, prostate, and small bowel imaging. Dr. Foster has recently started performing contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging (as the only site in Oregon) and US elastography. He is one of two radiologists that perform MRI-guided prostate biopsies (also only site in Oregon). Recently he was selected as an Honored Educator for the Radiological Society of North America. Dr. Ghaneh Fananapazir is a radiologist with specialization in abdominal radiology. He is Professor of Radiology at the University of California - Davis, in Sacramento, California. Fananapazir's clinical focus includes nonvascular interventional procedures, advanced US, CT and MR techniques, vascular imaging, and abdominal organ transplantation (kidney, liver, pancreas). In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Fananapazir is passionate about medical education and research, particularly relating to kidney transplantation, and has authored textbooks and peer-reviewed research in highly impactful medical journals.

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