| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 408 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Includes index. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 25, 2015). |
| Summary |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of diagnostic imaging in infectious diseases. It starts with a general review of infection diseases, including their classification, characteristics and epidemiology. In separate chapters, the authors then introduce the radionuclide imaging of 50 kinds of infectious diseases. Volume 1 covers 21 viral infections. Volume 2 has℗ℓ29 chapters discussing 24 bacterial infections and 5 parasitic infections. Each disease is clearly illustrated using cases combined with high-quality computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The book provides a valuable reference source for radiologists and doctors working in the area of infectious diseases. ℗ℓ Editor Li Hongjun, is a Professor and Director at the Diagnostic Radiology Department in Beijing You An Hospital, affiliated with Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. Professor Li is also the editor of the book Radiology of Influenza A (H1N1) and the book Radiology of HIV/AIDS: A Practical Approach. |
| Contents |
Anthrax -- Bacillary and amebic dysentery -- Brucellosis -- Cat Scratch Disease -- Chlamydia pneumoniae pneumonia -- Cholera -- Diphtheria -- Epidemic and endemic typhus -- Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis -- Gonorrhea -- Human streptococcus suis infection -- Legionnaires Disease -- Leprosy -- Leptospirosis -- Lyme disease -- Neonatal tetanus -- Other Infectious Diarrhea -- Pertussis -- Plague -- Psittacosis -- Pulmonary Tuberculosis -- Scarlet Fever -- Syphilis -- Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever -- Filariasis -- Hydatidosis -- Kala-azar.- Schistosomiasis -- Malaria. |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases -- Imaging.
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Medical radiology.
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Diagnostic Radiology.
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Infectious Diseases.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
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MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine
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MEDICAL / Diseases
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MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine
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MEDICAL / Internal Medicine
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Li, Hongjun (Radiologist), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Printed edition: 9789401798754 |
| ISBN |
9789401798761 electronic bk. |
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9401798761 electronic bk. |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-94-017-9876-1 doi |
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