Muscle Imaging in Health and Disease [Paperback]

A comprehensive text-reference of imaging skeletal muscle. This book is distinguished by its presentation of all available modalities: x-ray, CT ultrasound, and MRI. This is an area of vital importance to neurologists and orthopaedists as well as radiologists.Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Contributors.- I Radiology Techniques.- 1. Ionizing Radiation Imaging Techniques in the Evaluation of Muscle Disorders.- 2. Muscle Ultrasound.- 3. Basic Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- II Human Muscular Anatomy.- 4. MRI of the Trunk and Spine.- 5. MRI of the Upper Extremity.- 6. MRI of the Lower Extremity.- III Muscle Physiology and Pathophysiology.- 7. Diagnostic Imaging of Skeletal Muscle Exercise Physiology and Pathophysiology.- 8. 1H-MRS of Muscle Physiology and Pathophysiology.- 9. 31P-MRS of Muscle Physiology.- 10. 31P-MRS of Muscle Pathophysiology.- IV Neuromuscular Disease.- 11. Classification of Neuromuscular Diseases.- 12. Histopathological Basis of Muscle Imaging.- 13. Spinal Muscular Atrophy.- 14. Neuropathies and Motor Neuron Diseases.- 15. Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction.- 16. Muscular Dystrophies.- 17. Myotonie Disorders.- 18. Congenital Myopathies.- 19. Inherited Defects of Muscle Energy Metabolism: Radiologic Evaluation.- 20. Endocrine Myopathies.- 21. Inflammatory Myopathies.- 22. Muscle Disease in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS).- 23. Eosinophilic Fasciitis.- 24. Pediatric Muscle Ultrasound.- V Orthopaedic Muscle Disorders.- 25. The Role of Muscle Imaging in Orthopaedics.- 26. Rhabdomyolysis.- 27. Myositis Ossificans.- 28. Compartment Syndrome.- 29. Congenital Muscular Deformations.- 30. Muscle Viability.- 31. Neoplasms and Mass Lesions Involving Muscle.- 32. Muscle Edema Associated with Musculoskeletal Neoplasms and Radiation Therapy.- 33. Miscellaneous Muscle Lesions. The quality of images contained in the text is excellent and the multi-author contributors are to be congratulated on their end product...I am sure it will prove moslã.