The Sectional Anatomy Learning System: Concepts and Applications 2-Volume Set / Edition 3

by Edith Applegate MS

Overview

Designed to provide a thorough understanding of sectional anatomy, this unique, two-volume set is a complete, easy-to-use learning package. Volume 1, “Concepts,” presents detailed, readable descriptions of sectional anatomy of the entire body broken down into body systems. It focuses on how different structures within a system are related, so you can form a clear picture of how everything fits together. The text is highlighted with many new labeled diagnostic images, including radiographs, CT, MR, and sonograms. Volume 2, “Applications,” is an interactive workbook with coloring, labeling, and other exercises designed to help you identify the structures most commonly encountered in various imaging techniques.

• Helpful features include: chapter outlines, chapter objectives, pathology boxes, summary tables of anatomical information, review questions, chapter quizzes, and a glossary.
• Interactive exercises include labeling, anatomical coloring, short answer questions, and “Chapter Recall” tests.

• Many more labeled, high-quality images, including MRI, CT and sonography help you learn anatomy using real-life images you’ll see in clinics and in practice.
• Quick Check Questions test your understanding of the material as you progress through the chapters.
• Important Anatomical Relationships section describes relationships between anatomical structures and refers you to relevant images.
• Working with Images sections in each body system chapter provide additional discussion and diagnostic images, helping you learn to identify anatomical structures with a variety of imaging modalities.
• List of Key Terms at the beginning of each chapter alert you to the terms you need to watch for before you read.
• More exercises with diagnostic images in the Applications volume, giving additional opportunities to identify and label anatomic structures on actual images.
• Answers to all Quick Check questions are given in the back of the book, allowing for immediate feedback; answers to the other questions and exercises are available online on Evolve.
• Evolve Online Resources contains images of cadaver sections, allowing you to see anatomy related to the line drawings in the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416050131
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/26/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	608
Sales rank:	673,936
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Sectional Anatomy

2. The Thorax

3. The Abdomen

4. The Pelvis

5. The Head

6. The Vertebral Column, Spinal Cord, and Neck

7. The Upper Extremity

8. The Lower Extremity


Suggested Readings

Eponyms

Combining Forms

Glossary

Index

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From the Publisher

Understand anatomical relationships and produce high-quality images with this complete learning system

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Cris A. Zimmermann, RT (R)(Froedtert Hospital)
Description: This is a two-part learning system for sectional anatomy for students in the diagnostic imaging sciences. The concepts volume is an in-depth discussion of anatomy while the applications volume is a companion workbook that closely follows the chapters and provides students practice coloring and identifying sectional anatomy. The workbook also has sample test/quiz questions with the answers available online from a companion web site.
Purpose: This book is necessary when more and more imaging modalities use sectional imaging. These studies are ordered quite frequently and knowledge of the field is very helpful for any technologist in the imaging sciences. The book meets the objectives of providing a tool for better understanding sectional anatomy in 3D as well as MR and CT. It also greatly enhances readers' understanding of gross anatomy as well.
Audience: The intended audience is instructors and students of the diagnostic imaging sciences. To delve into these concepts, it is imperative that readers have at least two semesters of prerequisite anatomy. Although the author is a professor of science and math, she uses radiographers as reviewers and contributors. However, I would prefer the experience of authors who have a background in the medical imaging sciences.
Features: Each of the eight chapters covers a different region of anatomy. Each begins with a review of the bony anatomy followed by musculature, organs, and blood vessels. The chapters continue with a discussion of sectional anatomy through sequential sections, a thorough discussion of the important relationships, some pathology of the particular region, and a bullet-point summary. Chapters conclude with review questions and a quiz with the answers available online. Unique features include the heavy use of cadaver drawings which include more anatomy than any radiographer or radiologist might find useful. In general, there are far too many cadaver images and not enough practice using sectional images from CT, MRI, and 3D. Other shortcomings include the highly schematic drawings that can be confusing to seasoned radiographers. The applications book does provide users with many opportunities to color, label, and answer more questions, activities which serve to reinforce the relationships in sectional anatomy. The chapter recall in the applications volume is a brief test of knowledge of sectional anatomy.
Assessment: This third edition adds 3D and many more CT and MR images. It also includes important sections on relationships and working with images that give students practice looking at images from different modalities. As an instructor of sectional anatomy for more than 10 years, I still prefer to use Introduction to Sectional Anatomy, 2nd edition, by Madden (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008), however, because it contains more useful information for radiographers and instructors. I continue to choose Madden's over this book because along with each sequential image is a line drawing with numbers for all the items to be labeled. Madden has background in radiography and writes for radiographers/students and knows what is most useful to them. He does not waste time using cadaver drawings that are far too detailed and do not discern items in the imaging modalities.

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