High Resolution Sonography of the Peripheral Nervous System.pdf
High Resolution Sonography of the Peripheral Nervous System.pdf
Contents I
MEDICAL RADIOLOGY
Diagnostic Imaging
Editors:
A. L. Baert, Leuven
M. Knauth, Göttingen
K. Sartor, Heidelberg
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Contents III
S. Peer · G. Bodner (Eds.)
High-Resolution
Sonography of the
Peripheral
Nervous System
2nd Revised Edition
With Contributions by
G. Bodner · H. Gruber · S. Kiechl · P. Kovacs · S. Peer · H. Piza-Katzer
Foreword by
A. L. Baert
With 207 Figures in 402 Separate Illustrations, 76 in Color and 6 Tables
123
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IV Contents
Siegfried Peer, MD
Professor, Department of Radiology
Section for Diagnostic and
Interventional Sonography
Innsbruck Medical University
Anichstrasse 35
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
Gerd Bodner, MD
Professor, Department of Radiology
St. Bernards Hospital
Europort 1–4
Gibraltar
Medical Radiology · Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology
Series Editors:
A. L. Baert · L. W. Brady · H.-P. Heilmann · M. Knauth · M. Molls · C. Nieder · K. Sartor
Continuation of Handbuch der medizinischen Radiologie
Encyclopedia of Medical Radiology
ISBN 978-3-540-49083-8 eISBN 978-3-540-49084-5
DOI 10.1007 / 49084-5
Medical Radiology · Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology ISSN 0942-5373
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007934270
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Contents V
Foreword
Technological progress in hard- and software of ultrasound equipment for clinical use
has been tremendous in recent years.
Exquisite morphological visualisation of soft tissues and related pathology is
now possible in clinical daily routine work. Periarticular anatomy and pathology of
ligaments, bursae or tendons can now be depicted with unprecedented precision by
sonography. This technique provides important support for better management of
patients affected by trauma or diseases of the locomotor system.
The important role of high resolution sonography in the visualisation and manage-
ment of traumatic or tumoral conditions of the peripheral nervous system is less well
known.
This volume provides an excellent and comprehensive overview of our current
knowledge in this emerging fi eld of radiological imaging. It is the result of considerable
original sonographic research by the authors in close collaboration with colleagues
from several other disciplines including anatomists, neurologists and surgeons.
Dr. S. Peer and Dr. G. Bodner are internationally renowned pioneers in the new area
of peripheral nerve sonography and their book is based on extensive personal experi-
ence and exhaustive study of the existing literature on the topic. I would like to con-
gratulate them on this outstanding work.
I am confi dent that this superbly illustrated volume is a very timely and well needed
work and that it will fi nd great interest among radiologists, neurologists and specialists
in reconstructive and plastic surgery, as well as among trauma surgeons and all those
involved in rehabilitation medicine. I sincerely hope that it will meet with the same
success among readers as the previous volumes published in this series.
Leuven Albert L. Baert
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