Chest Radiology: Plain Film Patterns and Differential Diagnosis

I have read Felson's, Requisites, and Reed and I believe Reed to be the best of the bunch. It approaches chest interpretation in a systematic way and provides good differnetials with sound, yet short explainations. I recommend it in your library.

A very nice systematic approach to chest radiology with good lists of differential diagnosis for many radiographic patterns. Also has some decent questions at the beginning of each chapter. However, the quality of the pictures could definitly be improved as some are very low resolution and make it difficult to find the disease process they are discussing. Should be used as an supplement to another chest radiology book.

As a radiologist,I've rarely seen books that make the understanding of complicated points easier. This is an excellent text for the beginners in chest radiology to get a sense of approach to the problems. Although the classifications such as "Diffuse Coalescent" or "Multifocal Ill Defined Densities" may have low applicability in clinical practice, I still think that there seems no other way to approach to the enigma. One more problem is the difficulty to collect the knowledge about a spesific disease entity from different chapters as the book is based on differential diagnosis. Anyway, the book is worth memorising so there seems to be no problem. Thanks to Dr. Reed and to people who make our paths clean...