Diagnostic Cerebral Angiography

by Anne G. Osborn

Selected as a 2023 Doody’s Core Title!

Since 1980, Dr. Osborn's An Introduction to Cerebral Angiography has been the definitive text on this imaging modality. Now, this classic work has been completely revised, reorganized, and updated and expanded from an introductory book into a comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference on cerebral angiography. Diagnostic Cerebral Angiography, Second Edition, is organized into three major parts. Part 1 covers techniques and technical aspects of cerebral angiography. Part 2 is a detailed description of normal anatomy, anatomic variations, and congenital anomalies. Part 3 focuses on pathological entities, including trauma, aneurysms, stroke, vascular malformations, atherosclerosis, and vasculitis.Coverage includes new information on vascular territories, film subtraction, and magnetic resonance angiography. The text is thoroughly illustrated with 1,200 radiographs and line drawings, all of them new to this volume. Another new feature of this Second Edition is the use of boxed summaries throughout the text to highlight key points.

Genres: Medicine

480 pages, Hardcover

First published December 4, 1998

Reviews

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[Nancy Foster · Rating 4 out of 5]

A staple read in the subfield of angiography, this book is not without its shortcomings. I think the biggest flaw is the way how it is organized. Instead of explaining the technique and different image projections, it prefers to focus primarily on anatomy based on the different major cerebral arteries and venus sulcuses first which can cause the read to be pretty steep if you are not already mildly familiar with vascular brain anatomy.

I would have deeply appreciated a few more drawings in particular during the first few chapters, but the ones the book does offer are succinct and very schematic. The chapters delving on particular diseases are a bit of a hit or miss. Whereas arteriovenus malformations and aneurysms were very well written, I personally found the chapter on brain herniations to be confusing. I think the book is more useful to readers already familiar with some brain pathology and use this book as a supplement that focuses on angiography image studies. I must say that I really enjoyed the chapter on vein sulcus neuroanatomy. This book makes it far more digestible to read with nice diagrams.

Furthermore, if you are incapable of reading T1 and T2 weighted axial MRI's which I found to be the easiest diagrams in the book to follow, this book will be too advanced for you.

The book is much too advanced for the average medical student, but for residents in specialties related to neurosurgery and interventional cardiology, it should be an obligatory read.