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Radiology offers a diagnostic and therapeutic service to surgeons across the specialties, in both the emergent and elective care setting. The role of the house surgeon is to request radiological investigations, interpret simple imaging and act on radiological reports appropriately. These tasks are an excellent learning opportunity, as they require comprehensive knowledge of the patient, details of any surgery, and the management plan. Under each clinical setting, we have sought to relay the most relevant imaging modalities, along with brief descriptions of key appearances and corresponding images where possible.
“…the vascular catheter can be more than a tool for passive means for diagnostic observations: used with imagination it can become an important surgical instrument.”Dr. Charles Dotter, 1963
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Jones, B.L., Tantrige, P., Cawley, O.V. (2017). Radiology for Surgeons. In: Fisher, R., Ahmed, K., Dasgupta, P. (eds) Introduction to Surgery for Students. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43210-6_3
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