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Differential Diagnosis in Nuclear Medicine

Differential Diagnosis in Nuclear Medicine M.D. in Nuclear Medicine M.D. pp. 318, with tables. Edward B. Silberstein, New York: McCraw-Hill, and John C. McAfee, Inc., 1984. Cloth, $35.00; by the authors in the preface, is designed to serve two punposes: (a) to be used as a reference source in the daily practice of the physician intenpreting nuclear medicine images and in vitro procedures and (b) to aid the physician searching for references for use in scientific writing in this specialty. The book is a compilation of lists of the documented causes for various nuclear imaging patterns and in vitro test mesuits. The book is divided into 1 1 sections, primarily on the basis of organ systems. Most lists are divided according to common, less common, and name (or unknown incidence) causes. this Most radiologists are familiar with Reeder and Felson’s Garnuts in Radiology, which is very similar in format to this book. Silberstein and McAfee’s text provides references for almost every entry in its lists of diagnoses, allowing a melatively rapid identification of the supporting literature. I find this format to be a major improvement over that of the earlier book. The text is reasonably well organized, and with use of the table of contents, one can fairly quickly locate a desired differential diagnosis. The book certainly covers the findings of the common tests used in nuclear medicine and also includes a number of fairly esoteric tests, such as the bile acid breath test and thallium imaging of arterial insufficiency of the lower extremities. It also includes pamathyroid several tests imaging (e.g., with pancreatic and As stated book tion. The book excludes several topics for which a differential diagnosis would prove useful, such as soft-tissue or tumor uptake of thallium. There are no major typographic errors in this book, and the quality of the typography is adequate. The book appears to meet only one of its two stated goals. I do not believe it will be used as a daily reference, and I doubt that most physicians in the field truly need a book of this type to perform their everyday functions. In regard to teaching differential diagnosis to physicians in training, the lists are somewhat exhaustive, and I have always felt that a corresponding illustration of each pat- tern of discussion in a book of this style would increase its educational value. The book provides a fairly thorough meview of the imaging literature (the references make up oven one-third of the volume of the book), and it does provide a quick source of appropriate references. This book is very similar in content and price to Gamuts in Nuclear Medicine by mend Frederick either L. book Datz. to the I do not recompracindividual titioner, but every departmental library should have a copy of one of these books. Because I have fond personal memories of Ganiuts in Radiology, I favor the style of Datz’s text, but because of the case-by-case referencing tech n ique in the book by Silbenstein and McAfee, it is their book that I recommend for departmental purchase. U selenomethionine) that are blatantly archaic in a book written in 1983, and these topics should be eliminated in a second edi- Se-75 Reviewed USNR hi,’ Walter E. Drane, LCDR, MC, Radiology November http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Radiology Radiological Society of North America, Inc.

Differential Diagnosis in Nuclear Medicine

Walter E. Drane, LCDR, MC, USNR
Radiology , Volume 157: 528 – Nov 1, 1985
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M.D. in Nuclear Medicine M.D. pp. 318, with tables. Edward B. Silberstein, New York: McCraw-Hill, and John C. McAfee, Inc., 1984. Cloth, $35.00; by the authors in the preface, is designed to serve two punposes: (a) to be used as a reference source in the daily practice of the physician intenpreting nuclear medicine images and in vitro procedures and (b) to aid the physician searching for references for use in scientific writing in this specialty. The book is a compilation of lists of the documented causes for various nuclear imaging patterns and in vitro test mesuits. The book is divided into 1 1 sections, primarily on the basis of organ systems. Most lists are divided according to common, less common, and name (or unknown incidence) causes. this Most radiologists are familiar with Reeder and Felson’s Garnuts in Radiology, which is very similar in format to this book. Silberstein and McAfee’s text provides references for almost every entry in its lists of diagnoses, allowing a melatively rapid identification of the supporting literature. I find this format to be a major improvement over that of the earlier book. The text is reasonably well organized, and with use of the table of contents, one can fairly quickly locate a desired differential diagnosis. The book certainly covers the findings of the common tests used in nuclear medicine and also includes a number of fairly esoteric tests, such as the bile acid breath test and thallium imaging of arterial insufficiency of the lower extremities. It also includes pamathyroid several tests imaging (e.g., with pancreatic and As stated book tion. The book excludes several topics for which a differential diagnosis would prove useful, such as soft-tissue or tumor uptake of thallium. There are no major typographic errors in this book, and the quality of the typography is adequate. The book appears to meet only one of its two stated goals. I do not believe it will be used as a daily reference, and I doubt that most physicians in the field truly need a book of this type to perform their everyday functions. In regard to teaching differential diagnosis to physicians in training, the lists are somewhat exhaustive, and I have always felt that a corresponding illustration of each pat- tern of discussion in a book of this style would increase its educational value. The book provides a fairly thorough meview of the imaging literature (the references make up oven one-third of the volume of the book), and it does provide a quick source of appropriate references. This book is very similar in content and price to Gamuts in Nuclear Medicine by mend Frederick either L. book Datz. to the I do not recompracindividual titioner, but every departmental library should have a copy of one of these books. Because I have fond personal memories of Ganiuts in Radiology, I favor the style of Datz’s text, but because of the case-by-case referencing tech n ique in the book by Silbenstein and McAfee, it is their book that I recommend for departmental purchase. U selenomethionine) that are blatantly archaic in a book written in 1983, and these topics should be eliminated in a second edi- Se-75 Reviewed USNR hi,’ Walter E. Drane, LCDR, MC, Radiology November

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