Skeletal Trauma
A Mechanism-Based Approach of Imaging

A comprehensive resource for identifying skeletal injuries using a mechanisms-based approach

Guillaume Bierry (Author)

9780323854757

Hardback, published 12 January 2021

568 pages, 900 illustrations (280 in full color)
27.6 x 21.5 x 3.2 cm, 1.72 kg

A key to being confident in the evaluation of skeletal trauma imaging is to rely on the identification of mechanism-specific traumatic features. Indeed, for each mechanism of injury applied to a particular part of the skeleton, the latter can only present predefined traumatic injuries: this is a pattern of injuries.The recognition of such a pattern of imaging allows the reader to determine the injuring mechanism and look for damages of lesser expression (or even invisible damages) that are common to the identified mechanism. In becoming more familiar with those mechanisms, the readers can deal with trauma imaging more efficiently and directly focus on findings relevant for further management.Skeletal Trauma: A Mechanism-Based Approach of Imaging aims to combine the knowledge of both radiologists and surgeons to propose a mechanism-based approach to imaging in skeletal trauma. Along 15 chapters covering every part of the skeleton, with more than 900 figures, this book reviews the anatomy, standard radiologic views, and imaging findings of skeletal trauma. Over 200 original schemas invite the reader to understand the imaging features and determine the injuring mechanism.

1. Introduction to Skeletal Trauma
2. Scapular Girdle
3. Shoulder and proximal humerus
4. Elbow and forearm
5. Wrist
6. Hand
7. Pelvic Ring
8. Acetabulum
9. Hip and Proximal Femur
10. Knee
11. Ankle and Tibia
12. Foot
13. Craniocervical junction
14. Cervical Spine
15. Thoracolumbar Spine

Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA]