Musculoskeletal Trauma Simplified. A Casebook to Aid Diagnosis & Management

Abstract

Musculoskeletal Trauma Simplified: A Casebook to Aid Diagnosis and Management is authored by residents in diagnostic radiology (Shivani Gupta, MD) and orthopaedic surgery (Amna Diwan, MD) and is coauthored by associated professors of radiology (Robert Malcolm Smith, MD) and orthopaedic surgery (Robert W. Perone, MD) as well as an assistant professor of radiology (Cornelia Wenokor, MD). The case-based book is divided into anatomical sections by injury location. Each case contains clinical presentation and information, imaging (primarily plane film radiographs with some computed tomography [CT] and magnetic resonance imaging), a summary of radiologic findings, clinical management, and a useful summary of key points at the end of each case. Case scenarios are presented as trauma patients entering the emergency department or trauma bay setting, with subsequent answers to the questions of: diagnosis, mechanism of injury, classification of injury, complications to patient short or long term, and what to look for on the radiographs. This book is organized by anatomical chapters and covers the trauma patient from head to toe. It also touches briefly on the pediatric trauma patient, specifically common fractures and long-bone injuries. An appendix of normal radiographs is also included but does not include pediatrics. The Fracture and Index section at the back of the book makes it very easy to search fractures alphabetically, a useful tool for a radiography