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Summary: Don't Buy This Book!
Review: I hope anyone who is planning on buying this book reads this review first. This is book is not worth the money. It is poorly organized. The discussions are nonspecific and at times non sensical. There is a lack of quality images that demonstrate findings. For example, on case 29, Wegener's. The only image provided is a CT scan with interstitial disease. However, the classic findings were of wegener's was only described, but no images! Is interstitial disease even classic for wegener's?! Also, some chapters try to help by putting information into little boxes to sum up important findings. But these boxes are filled with nonspecific useless findings that will not be helpful in making a diagnosis. For example, Case 131 states has a box with the "key" imaging features of a neurogenic neoplasm. It lists "Large mass, Solid, Calicification Common, occasionally hemorrhagic". What mass doesn't fit into this description? I read the book. But it was very low yield. I would recommmend the case review series, Reed's Pattern's and Principles, or in fact any other book.
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Summary: recent review from the Journal CHEST
Review: recent review...
"The greatest strength of this book lies in its organization, which consists of an intelligent grouping of radiologic patterns. Hence, in many ways it is a textbook of differential diagnosis that presents diseases with overlapping radiologic patterns and offers 'pearls' with regard to how to distinguish among them. This approach emphasizes how best to order one's differential diagnoses and is the most important attribute of this volume." -Chest, Feb 2004; 125: 803.(Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians)
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Summary: recommended for boards
Review: This book gives lots of very nice differentials and examples. I would recommend it for studying for the orals!
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Summary: recommended for boards
Review: This book has a paucity of differential diagnostic lists. Most cases in chest are nonspecific and forming a differential diagnosis is a necessary skill. This book lacks that. Most times, it gives one specific diagnosis for a very nonspecific image and clinical history. Not very useful.
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Summary: one more thing
Review: This book has a paucity of differential diagnostic lists. Most cases in chest are nonspecific and forming a differential diagnosis is a necessary skill. This book lacks that. Most times, it gives one specific diagnosis for a very nonspecific image and clinical history. Not very useful.
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