Stress Test by Sidney Harris

Stress Test by Sidney Harris

Learn the art of diagnostic radiology, from symptom to diagnosis

This book demonstrates how even difficult cases can be diagnosed by taking a systematic approach to image interpretation. Drawing upon decades of experience, Dr. Freyschmidt guides readers from case to case while solving the core problems that arise in making a diagnosis. He shows how initially challenging cases can be turned into cases that only seemed difficult at the outset.

Step-by-step approach:

• Systematic case presentations: prior history and clinical questions, radiologic findings, pathoanatomic classification, synopsis and discussion, final diagnosis, and comments
• Arranged by anatomic region: skull, spine, pelvis, shoulder girdle and thoracic cage, upper and lower limbs
• More than 1,400 high-quality images from the author's case files
• Over 150 difficult and challenging cases from skeletal radiology
• Answers questions such as: What are the requirements of a good diagnosis? How is a good diagnosis defined? Which imaging procedure will yield the desired information most quickly and accurately?
• Describes imaging modalities and gives recommendations on selecting a particular modality

Your instructor in book form: a systematic, case-by-case approach to making a diagnosis

SIDNEY HARRIS' work has appeared in the New Yorker, American Scientist, and Playboy, among other publications. Can't You People Read? and Einstein Simplified: Cartoons on Science are two of his other cartoon collections. He is a resident of New Haven, Connecticut.