TY - BOOK AU - Guglielmi,Giuseppe AU - Peh,Wilfried C.G. AU - Camissa,Mario ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - High-Resolution Radiographs of the Hand SN - 9783540794806 AV - R895-920 U1 - 616.0757 23 PY - 2009/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Medicine KW - Radiology KW - Rheumatology KW - Orthopedics KW - Medicine & Public Health KW - Diagnostic Radiology KW - Surgical Orthopedics KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - High-Resolution Industrial Radiographs: An Introduction -- Normal Hand and Variants -- Soft Tissue Lesions -- Soft Tissue Lesions Involving Bone -- Cortical and Periosteal Lesions -- Articular Lesions -- Associated Articular and Soft Tissue Lesions -- Bone Lesions N2 - Plain radiography is still alive. In many institutions, including ours, conventional radiography has been replaced by digital systems including imaging-plate-based computed radiography and fat-panel detector-based digital radiography. Even for the education of radiation technologists, conventional flm-screen radiography has been de-- phasized, and their education is concentrated on digital systems. Spatial resolution of a conventional system is still far better than the current digital systems, although the dynamic range is wider in the latter system. Industrial flm radiography with small grain size and direct exposure has an even higher resolution, and such hi- resolution systems are something we lost in the transition from the conventional system to the current PACS-friendly system. I am pleased to know that Giuseppe Guglielmi and Wilfred Peh have published this textbook of high-resolution hand radiographs that cannot be obtained with any other techniques. Radiography has always been the most important modality in the evaluation of the hand, and, moreover, high-resolution industrial flms are extremely efective in the evaluation of the hand, particularly for assessing subtle erosions. Hands are not just one of the peripheries of the human body. Tey refect conditions of the whole human body. Not only the metabolic status, but also many congenital disorders are manifested in the hand. Radiographic fndings of the hand are ofen specifc, and contribute to the diagnoses a great deal. Tere have been several publications concerning the radiology of the hand, and they have been well accepted UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79480-6 ER -