title: Essentials of Radiology (Mettler, Essentials of Radiology)
author: Fred A. Mettler Jr. MD  MPH
description: "This is a very useful book for the intended audience. It is very basic, so radiology residents will probably not find it that useful after about six months of training, but nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical students, and primary care physicians should find it extremely useful. There have been sufficient changes in the field of radiology to warrant the new edition."- Bennett Greenspan, MD, MD(Medical College of Georgia) <b>Doody Review:5 stars</b>
zlib_text: > SPEED
  
  MSK Radiology
  
  How to report more studies faster
  
    
  
  Christoph Amadeus Agten, M.D.
  
    
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2019 Christoph A. Agten
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  ISBN: 9781074826932
  
  > DEDICATION
  
  To remind myself what I can achieve when not playing Dota2.
  
  > CONTENTS
  
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  Acknowledgments
  
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  Introduction
  
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  2
  
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  General Principles
  
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  3
  
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  Spine
  
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  4
  
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  Upper Extremity
  
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  5
  
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  Lower Extremity
  
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  6
  
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  Special Cases
  
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  7
  
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  Summary
  
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  8
  
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  References
  
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  > ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  I want to thank my awesome wife Andrea. She opened the world for me and is
  supporting me in all my endeavors. Thank you, dear.
  
  > 1 Introduction
  
  Three of the essential traits of any radiologist are detection,
  interpretation, and speed. Detection is the ability to realize that something
  in a specific image or study is wrong. It does not mean you already have to
  know what it is, but just the feeli