Donald School Textbook of Transvaginal Sonography Asim Kurjak, Jose Bajo Arenas
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1Donald School Textbook of TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY
2Donald School Textbook of TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY
Editors Asim Kurjak Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Medical School University of Zagreb Sveti Duh Hospital Zagreb, Croatia Jose Bajo Arenas Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University Hospital Sta. Cristina Madrid, Spain
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Biserka, Igor and Alan
—Asim Kurjak
Marina, Marinita and Juan
—Jose Bajo Arenas
5Contributors 9Preface
In recent years, there have been dramatic technical advances in diagnostic ultrasound. The advent of color Doppler, power Doppler and, more recently, three-dimensional imaging has very dramatically developed into a revolution of new ways of doing and seeing things. These developments now occur at such a rapid pace that unless we keep up with the developing technology, we will inevitably and inexorably fall behind. In order to stay with the leading edge of diagnostic ultrasound, one has to keep pace with what colleagues are doing around the world. This book, written by the lecturers of the Ian Donald Inter-University School of Medical Ultrasound, represents the current knowledge on one of the newest achievements in obstetric and gynecologic ultrasonography, transvaginal sonography.
In recent years, the sophisticated ultrasound imaging technique of transvaginal ultrasound has become available for both obstetricians and gynecologist. Today, many types of transvaginal probe exist which are designed with adequate shape and high frequency of ultrasound such as 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 or 7.5 MHz. Accordingly high quality of 2D and 3D images of the uterus, ovaries or the early conceptus in the uterus can be obtained through the vaginal fornix, even though with some limitations like a narrow view field of the image.
The most exciting recent developments are color Doppler and transvaginal sonography. The combination of these two modalities in the same vaginal probe provides for superb simultaneous visualization of structural and flow information and offers new insight into dynamic studies of blood flow within the female pelvis. Most of these exciting developments are illustrated in this book.
The authors contributing to Textbook of Transvaginal Sonography have all been selected for their special expertise in their own chosen fields, their access to outstanding visual material and their ability to explain the significance of it in an effective and lucid way. Finally, particular emphasis is being placed on achieving a very high quality reproduction in the printing process itself in order to do full justice to the wide variety of visual images presented.
The Textbook contains 550 original (black & white and color) ultrasound pictures, as well as diagrams and photographs of babies after delivery. The book is divided into 5 sections with total of 40 chapters covering general aspects, obstetrics, gynecology and infertility, Doppler sonography and 3D and 4D transvaginal sonography. This major new work in ultrasound diagnosis also comprises an outstanding collection of images produced by the most sophisticated techniques and equipment currently available. We do believe that this book will be of great value to gynecologists, obstetricians and specialists in infertility as well as to diagnostic radiologists.
We are grateful to all contributors and to the publisher and secretary Mrs Jadranka Cerovec with whom we have worked so pleasantly.
Asim Kurjak
Jose Bajo Arenas