Chest X-Ray Made Easy

by Jonathan Corne, Mary Carroll

A new edition in the highly successful Made Easy 'series', this is a small pocketbook that will help the junior doctor in the interpretation of the chest X-ray. It describes the range of conditions likely to be encountered on the wards and guides the doctor through the process of examining and interpreting the film based on the appearance of the abnormality shown. It then assists the doctor in determining the nature of the abnormality and points the clinician towards possible differential diagnosis.

The book covers the range of common radiological problems the junior doctors are faced with, starting with the appearance of the film, e.g. showing generalised shadowing or a coin lesion. It gives advice on how to examine an X-ray, how to check its technical quality and how to identify where the lesion is. All the X-rays are accompanied by a simple line diagram outlining where the abnormality is. - Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Mastectomy
- Air under the diaphragm

Genres: Medical, Medicine

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Sina Homayooni]

Last week, with me as the intern on duty, we had this trauma patient in the ER who had suffered a fall. He was not totally conscious. The ER resident had seen an opacity behind the heart shadow in the CXR and had ordered a CT. When I got to the patient everyone was discussing the images to identify the "lobulated mass" in the lower lobe of left lung. Having read the fourth chapter of this book, I knew at first sight, that it was collapse of the lower lobe of the left lung. At first nobody paid me much attention. It was not after doing a bedside lung ultrasonography (seeing air-bronchograms) that they got to accept it as atelectasis. It was due to aspiration.

All this, I said to emphasize how much of a help this book can be to medical students, medical interns and health care amateurs like me to be able to make a good primary diagnosis. The book is really short and can be pretty informative. It comes with pictures and a list of differential etiologies.

[JAYNE ROSCAMP]

Let's hope that all that information now lives in my brain and I pass my chest x-ray MSc module 🫣🤣🫣🤣😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Baraa Qudah]

fine book for the medical students , but if it had more pictures for every condition , that would made it much better .

anyway it's a good companion to slides provided by any radiology course teachers .

for advanced knowledge stage , for example when the one is internal medicine doctor or ER doctor another source is needed of course , which would have more information on the approach to the chest xray film .

[Yingzhe Feng]

Some little nuggets to be fair. CT stuff was useful; not a life changer but important to be thorough. Struggle to see the subtler things and am probs never gonna use any of the heart stuff in practice.

Can’t wait to do too much on the wards and use pulmonary hypertension as a differential for bilateral hilar enlargement (the answer were TB or sarcoidosis)

[Mati]

Comprehensive guide for chest X-rays, however the text is sometimes to confusing and pointing to the things, which are not useful for clinical practice. There should be more X-rays examples those which are picked are typical but some more would do good. However cheap book with content sufficient for introduction to the problem. Good to buy for med students or very lazy clinician. I would grab something little bit deeper in subject.

[Ahmed Mohsen]

very interesting book for the beginner & radiologist , it gives u the basic knowledge for reading chest x -ray & a good scheme for this .
but still u need to read more books to get better knowledge if u want to be a good radiologist

[S.E.]

This book provides a basic introduction to chest rays. While it is sufficient for clinical medical students or foundation doctors, I do not think that it contains sufficient information for a radiology resident or specialist registrar.

[Amr Khaled]

While the "Made Easy" series aims at making it easier to get into a subject, this book feels like it was made to make you hate it.

The pictures are lacking, the work seems rushed, & it skips major points.
This doesn't forgive the details mentioned in explaining the x-rays.
Expected better.

[Eman 安吉娃娃]

Didn’t meet my expectations.
Yes it has pictures but the explanation is not clear enough.
I won’t recommend it for students..
However, I loved the size of the book.

[Sohel]

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