ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis, 3rd Edition – A Comprehensive Guide for Accurate Diagnoses

By Atif Zaheer MD, Siva P. Raman MD, Bryan R. Foster MD, Ghaneh Fananapazir MD

Get ready to elevate your diagnostic skills with the highly practical and user-friendly ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis, 3rd edition. This esteemed resource helps you reach accurate, clinically useful differential diagnoses in your everyday practice, covering 175 of the most common diagnostic challenges in abdominal and pelvic imaging.

Comprehensive and Structured Approach

The book presents the most useful differential diagnoses for each region of the abdomen and pelvis, neatly organized according to anatomic location, generic imaging findings, modality-specific findings, or clinical-based indications. Each differential diagnosis includes:

• High-quality, succinctly annotated images
• A list of diagnostic possibilities sorted as common, less common, and rare but important
• Brief, bulleted text offering helpful diagnostic clues

Valuable Resource for Radiologists and Trainees

This expert guide is an excellent resource for subspecialty abdominal imagers, general radiologists, and trainees, providing invaluable assistance in reaching logical, on-target differential diagnoses based on key imaging findings and clinical details.

New and Updated Content

The 3rd edition features new chapters on:

• Hematuria
• Flank pain
• Acute scrotal pain
• Seminal vesicle

Plus, it includes 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. You’ll also find updates to numerous classifications, including LI-RADS for liver, O-RADS for ovarian masses, and the Tanaka classification for pancreatic cysts.

Enhanced Visual Aids

The book features over 2,100 radiologic images, full-color illustrations, clinical and histologic photographs, and gross pathology images, as well as new MR examples and MR-specific diagnoses throughout, plus new differentials for contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings related to liver and kidney lesions.

With ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis, 3rd edition, you’ll have a comprehensive guide to help you master the art of accurate differential diagnosis and take your radiology skills to the next level.

Published by Elsevier, this 650-page hardcover book is available in English and was released on November 4, 2022. ISBN-10: 0323878660, ISBN-13: 978-0323878661.