Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound, 2nd Edition

Techniques and Differential Diagnoses
Authors :
Ruth Dennis & Robert M. Kirberger & Frances Barr & Robert H. Wrigley
The Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: Techniques and Differential Diagnoses provides a user-friendly reference for a wide range of radiographic and ultrasonographic findings in dogs and cats. Key features Enables successfu ...view more

The Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: Techniques and Differential Diagnoses provides a user-friendly reference for a wide range of radiographic and ultrasonographic findings in dogs and cats.

Key features

  • Enables successful and clear interpretation of radiographs and ultrasonograms
  • Offers clearly sequenced text arrangement from the identification of the radiographic or sonographic abnormalities to a list of subsequent considerations for each sign
  • Prioritizes different clinical findings to tailor further diagnostic tests or therapeutic interventions
  • Takes imaging abnormalities from the descriptive to the interpretative

New to this edition

  • Colour throughout enhances user-friendliness
  • Many new conditions
  • Extra illustrations show techniques and normal anatomy
  • Additional information on techniques, normal appearance and disease processes
  • Expanded Further Reading sections

This book is intended for all users of small animal diagnostic imaging, from radiologists through to general practitioners to veterinary students, and will be an invaluable supplement to existing references in the subject.

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The Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound: Techniques and Differential Diagnoses provides a user-friendly reference for a wide range of radiographic and ultrasonographic findings in dogs and cats.

Key features

  • Enables successful and clear interpretation of radiographs and ultrasonograms
  • Offers clearly sequenced text arrangement from the identification of the radiographic or sonographic abnormalities to a list of subsequent considerations for each sign
  • Prioritizes different clinical findings to tailor further diagnostic tests or therapeutic interventions
  • Takes imaging abnormalities from the descriptive to the interpretative

New to this edition

  • Colour throughout enhances user-friendliness
  • Many new conditions
  • Extra illustrations show techniques and normal anatomy
  • Additional information on techniques, normal appearance and disease processes
  • Expanded Further Reading sections

This book is intended for all users of small animal diagnostic imaging, from radiologists through to general practitioners to veterinary students, and will be an invaluable supplement to existing references in the subject.


Key Features
• Helps to interpret of radiology images in an easy and competent manner• Information of this book designed to order one’s thought processes after the radiographic or sonographic abnormalities have been categorized• Once imaging abnormalities have been identified, lists of considerations are provided for each sign• Prioritization of different clinical findings can be used to tailor further diagnostic tests or therapeutic interventions• Takes imaging abnormalities from the descriptive to the interpretive• Unique approach: diagnosis based

Author Information
By Ruth Dennis, MA, VctMB, DVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS; Robert M. Kirberger, BVSc, MMedVet(Rad), DipECVDI, Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital, University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa; Frances Barr, MA, VetMB, PhD, DVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS, Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Imaging, School of Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Robert H. Wrigley, BVSc, MS, DVR, DipACVR, DipECVDI, MRCVS, Professor Diagnostic Imaging, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA and Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Australia