ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis – A Comprehensive Guide to Accurate Differential Diagnoses

By Atif Zaheer MD, Siva P. Raman MD, Bryan R. Foster MD, and Ghaneh Fananapazir MD, this highly practical and user-friendly third edition of ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis is an indispensable resource for radiologists, trainees, and subspecialty abdominal imagers. This comprehensive guide helps you reach accurate, clinically useful differential diagnoses in your everyday practice, making it an essential tool for your medical library.

Practical and User-Friendly Approach

This expertly crafted guide 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:

• 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

This approach enables you to quickly and confidently diagnose a wide range of abdominal and pelvic imaging challenges, making it an excellent resource for radiologists, radiology residents, and medical students.

Comprehensive Coverage of Abdominal and Pelvic Imaging

This third edition 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

New chapters on hematuria, flank pain, acute scrotal pain, and seminal vesicle provide valuable insights, while expanded content on lesions in the peripheral zone and lesions in the transition zone, as well as new coverage of transplant imaging, keep you up-to-date with the latest advancements in prostate imaging.

Updates and New Content

This edition features updates to numerous classifications, including:

• LI-RADS for liver
• O-RADS for ovarian masses
• The Tanaka classification for pancreatic cysts

New MR examples and MR-specific diagnoses are included throughout, as well as new differentials for contrast-enhanced ultrasound findings related to liver and kidney lesions.

Published by Elsevier, this 650-page hardcover edition is the perfect addition to your medical library, providing a quick review of the salient features of each entity, differentiating features from other similar-appearing abnormalities, and invaluable assistance in reaching logical, on-target differential diagnoses based on key imaging findings and clinical details.

ExpertDDx: Abdomen and Pelvis, Third Edition, is an indispensable resource for radiologists, trainees, and subspecialty abdominal imagers, helping you to reach accurate, clinically useful differential diagnoses in your everyday practice.