This best-selling volume in The Requisites Series provides a comprehensive introduction to timely ultrasound concepts, ensuring quick access to all the essential tools for the effective practice of ultrasonography. Comprehensive yet concise, Ultrasound covers everything from basic principles to advanced state-of-the-art techniques. This title perfectly fulfills the career-long learning, maintenance of competence, reference, and review needs of residents, fellows, and practicing physicians. Covers the spectrum of ultrasound use for general, vascular, obstetric, and gynecologic imaging.

Preceded by: Ultrasound : the requisites / William D. Middleton. Second edition. 2004.

Practical physics -- Gallbladder -- Liver -- Bile ducts -- Kidney -- Lower genitourinary -- Pancreas -- Spleen -- General abdomen -- Neck and chest -- Extremities -- The obstetric ultrasound examination : guidelines -- Fetal well-being, amniotic fluid volume, and hydrops -- The first trimester and ectopic pregnancy -- Fetal central nervous system, face, and neck -- Fetal thorax -- Fetal gastrointestinal tract -- Fetal genitourinary tract -- Fetal musculoskeletal system -- Placenta, umbilical cord, and cervix -- Multiple gestations -- Chromosome abnormalities : assessment for aneuploidy -- Pelvis and uterus -- Adnexa.