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By Jorge A. Soto and Brian C. Lucey
387 pp, $102
Philadelphia, PA, Mosby/Elsevier, 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-3230-5407-2

JAMA. 2009;302(11):1232-1233.

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Emergency radiology, as a clinical area of interest, existed well before emergency medicine was regarded as a distinct specialty. However, as with the clinical specialty, emergency radiology was felt to be a concatenation of radiology disciplines, generally with musculoskeletal (plain radiographic) imaging being the greatest center of gravity. Even during the adolescence of this field, radiologists were still challenged to determine who would read advanced imaging studies (ie, ultrasound, computed tomography [CT], magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine) and when. As the clinical field reached maturity, so did emergency radiology, accompanied by a large array of excellent textbooks, review manuals, and pictorial essays.

Three-dimensional imaging has added a new dimension to the evaluation of life-threatening medical conditions. A, Three-dimensional computed tomography scan showing a large bilobed tortuous abdominal aortic aneurysm (arrowhead). The neck of the aneurysm is located less than 2 cm from the origin of the renal arteries and continues . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Howard P. Forman, MD, MBA, Reviewer
Department of Radiology
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
howard.forman@yale.edu

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