Author Description

This brand-new textbook tells you how to get started with liver ultrasound, focusing on clinically relevant points and moving on to advancing applications. It provides a solid technical approach to liver ultrasound scanning offering a point of reference for both radiologists and hepatologists in training. At the same time it introduces different liver pathological conditions, discussing clinical evaluations and how to use more advanced techniques. The main challenge for the trainee sonologist is learning the basics of scanning, appreciating the technical subtleties and learning the anatomy of the liver alongside developing their understanding of advancing technologies. This book will aim to bridge the gap between different specialities in liver and sonography so that the reader will have the same level of understanding on each aspect of the subject. Moreover, it will highlight aspects of liver pathology and pathophysiology which represent an important background to the understanding of liver disease, liver pathology, the integration and usefulness of elastography and other technologies and how these are applied and can improve the management of patients in clinical practice.