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[ChronicAcute]

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Hi,

I am looking for a book to help teach me how to describe abnormalities on radiographic images using medical/radiologist terminology. For example, diffuse, well defined, nodules, consolidation, using this kind of terminology to describe abnormalities on X-rays, what they mean, where to use them etc....there must be something out there. What books do radiologists/medics use for this purpose/to hone this craft? I have scoured the internet and my university library to no avail. I could not find anything that would help me in this topic.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

 

[maxxor]

Hi,

I am looking for a book to help teach me how to describe abnormalities on radiographic images using medical/radiologist terminology. For example, diffuse, well defined, nodules, consolidation, using this kind of terminology to describe abnormalities on X-rays, what they mean, where to use them etc....there must be something out there. What books do radiologists/medics use for this purpose/to hone this craft? I have scoured the internet and my university library to no avail. I could not find anything that would help me in this topic.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Maybe you could give some information as to your background? We do 10 years of training to get competent at this. There's not some magic shortcut book lurking on amazon that every radiologist memorizes.

 

[ChronicAcute]

Maybe you could give some information as to your background? We do 10 years of training to get competent at this. There's not some magic shortcut book lurking on amazon that every radiologist memorizes.

I am a diagnostic radiography student. I am looking for the basics of how to describe abnormalities seen on radiographs.....I am not looking to interpret or diagnose, just to describe an abnormality when I see it using correct medical terminology. Surely, there's something out there that deals with this topic.

 

[maxxor]

I am a diagnostic radiography student. I am looking for the basics of how to describe abnormalities seen on radiographs.....I am not looking to interpret or diagnose, just to describe an abnormality when I see it using correct medical terminology. Surely, there's something out there that deals with this topic.

Our training assumes baseline medical background knowledge. It's very hard to divorce the findings from the underlying pathology.

You could try looking at Herring's Learning Radiology, a very basic text aimed at medical students.

 

[Almighty Saguaro]

I am a diagnostic radiography student. I am looking for the basics of how to describe abnormalities seen on radiographs.....I am not looking to interpret or diagnose, just to describe an abnormality when I see it using correct medical terminology. Surely, there's something out there that deals with this topic.

If you're at a clinical placement, Consider reading the reports on your patients. That way, you'll both learn about recognizing abnormalities and learn a lot about how to describe them.

 

[Radiologyreviews2015]

UVA's website got me through my rotation. Didn't use the learning radiology book but have heard good things.