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Block, Color Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy © 2004 Thieme All rights reserved. Usage subject to terms and conditions of license.

Block, Color Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy © 2004 Thieme All rights reserved. Usage subject to terms and conditions of license.

Color Atlas of Ultrasound Anatomy
Berthold Block, M.D.
Private Practice Braunschweig Germany

544 illustrations

Thieme Stuttgart ·New York
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This book is an authorizedtranslation of the German edition published and copyrighted 2003 by Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany. Title of the German edition: Der Sono-Guide: Taschenatlas der sonographischen Schnittbilddiagnostik

Translator: Terry C. Telger, Fort Worth, TX, USA Illustrator: Gay & Sender, Bremen, Germany

© 2004 Georg Thieme Verlag, Rüdigerstrasse 14, 70469 Stuttgart, Germany http://www.thieme.deThieme New York, 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 USA http://www.thieme.com Cover design: Cyclus, Stuttgart Typesetting by Gay & Sender, Bremen Printed in Germany by Druckhaus Götz ISBN 3-13-139051- 4 (GTV) ISBN 1-58890-281-1 (TNY) 1 2 3 4 5

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PrefaceUltrasound scanning yields a series of sectional images. The basis for interpreting the examination is the individual sectional image. At first sight, it is easy to be confused by the variable appearance of an ultrasound scan of the same region in different patients. This has numerous causes, including differences in density, body fat, age-related differences, overlying gas, and artifacts. In most...