Atlas of Imaging Anatomy

279 Pages·2015·38.4 MB·English

by  Lucio Olivetti (eds.)

Lucio Olivetti
Editor
Atlas of
Imaging Anatomy
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Atlas of Imaging Anatomy

Lucio Olivetti
Editor
Atlas of Imaging
Anatomy
Editor
Lucio Olivetti
Department of Radiology
AO Istituti Ospedalieri di Cremona
C remona
Italy
This volume is partially based on the Springer Italia title “Professione TSRM”
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Pref ace
The fi rst exam of my degree course in Medicine and Surgery was Normal
Human Anatomy; it was many years ago, and medical students used to say
that after passing such an exam, along with the Clinical Pathology one, you
could be considered as a medical doctor (there are actually more than 28
exams). I passed both of them brilliantly, but I remember I liked the fi rst one
much more: it was my fi rst 30/30 cum laude so far. Years later, at the begin-
ning of my career as a radiologist, through images, I really started to see the
real anatomy, that I had previously studied only in books, or, less frequently,
in the Pathological Anatomy Department and that I had stored in my mind as
a long list of hundreds of names. Another memory of the beginning of my
career as a radiologist is that of a convention organized by Professor Gian
Franco Pistolesi, an Italian Master in Radiology, titled Anatomy: The Queen
of the Image. The main subjects were conventional X-ray and cross-sectional
imaging (ultrasound scan, CT and MRI), able to “translate” human anatomy
into images. I understood that only through the perfect knowledge of the
normal anatomy we can understand the pathological patterns, and the radi-
ologist is able to control the imaging instruments only when he is aware of
their importance in the description of anatomical fi ndings. The image acqui-
sition (radiographer) and interpretation (radiologist) of the correct images is
not possible without a proper knowledge of any single detail of the morphol-
ogy of the human body: it is essential to highlight, through imaging tech-
niques, the patients’ normal elements, variables and pathological alterations.
This editorial project is a consequence of the above story and follows the
publication of my two previous books Imaging of Urogenital Disease and
Professione TSRM (published in Italian only). In the following pages, you
will fi nd both anatomical pictures and the corresponding images obtained
with the different techniques.
The labor for this book was, unexpectedly fast, and accelerated. I wish I
had more time to work on this project, but nowadays hospital doctors have
heavy workloads and it is often diffi cult to fi nd the time for other pleasures
such as writing that, for some of us, gives meaning to life. Nevertheless, I
hope this is an eutocic delivery, and this book is issued wishing success, or
simply a good and profi table reading.
Cremona, Italy Lucio Olivetti
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Contents
1 Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Mario Crispino and Emanuela Crispino
2 Spine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Mario Crispino and Emanuela Crispino
3 Head and Neck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Lucio Olivetti and Salvatore Cuffari
4 Breast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Maria Bodini and Lucio Olivetti
5 Thorax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Lucio Olivetti and Giovanni Cerri
6 Mediastinum and Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Pietro Sergio and Giancarlo Mazza
7 Abdominal Cavity, Peritoneum and Retroperitoneum . . . . . . . 129
Pietro Sergio
8 Gastrointestinal Tract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Giancarlo Mazza and Lucio Olivetti
9 Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Lucio Olivetti and Davide Volpi
10 Urinary System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Giuseppe Voltini and Lucio Olivetti
11 Male Reproductive Organs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Luigi Grazioli and Lucio Olivetti
12 Female Reproductive System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Lucio Olivetti, Luigi Grazioli, and Paola Pollastri
13 Joints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Antonio Dell’Osso, Cinzia Marenzi, and Giuseppe Voltini
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