Vincent Low - Gastrointestinal Imaging,: Case Review Series

Professor of Radiology
Director of Neuroradiology
Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology
and Radiological Science
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Baltimore, Maryland

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CASE REVIEW

THIRD EDITION

EDITOR

Vincent H.S. Low, MBBS, FRANZCR

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Western Australia
Crawley, Western Australia

Consultant Radiologist
InSight Clinical Imaging
Joondalup, Western Australia

1600 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
Ste 1800
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2899

GASTROINTESTINAL IMAGING: CASE REVIEW, THIRD EDITION

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I have been very gratified by the popularity and positive feedback that the authors of the Case Review series have received on the publication of the first and second editions of their volumes. Reviews in journals and word-of-mouth comments have been uniformly favorable. The authors have done an outstanding job filling the niche of an affordable, easy-to-read, case-based learning tool that supplements the material in The Requisites series. I have been told by residents, fellows, and practicing radiologists that the Case Review series is the ideal means for studying for oral board examinations and subspecialty certification tests.

Although some students learn best in a noninteractive study book mode, others need the anxiety or excitement of being quizzed. The selected format for the Case Review series (which consists of showing a few images needed to construct a differential diagnosis and then asking a few clinical and imaging questions) was designed to simulate the board examination experience. The only difference is that the Case Review texts provide the correct answer and immediate feedback. The limits and range of the readers knowledge are tested through scaled cases ranging from relatively easy to very hard. The Case Review series also offers a brief discussion of each case, a link back to the pertinent The Requisites volume, and up-to-date references from the literature.

Because of the popularity of this series, we have been rolling out the second and third editions of the Case Review volumes. The expectation is that these editions will bring the content up to the current knowledge limits of the field, introduce new modalities and new techniques, and provide new and even more graphic examples of pathology. To adjust to the upcoming change from an oral board examination to a computer-based one, the Case Review series has changed. We have moved to an even more engaging live platform through the use of the Internet. The questions have been reframed into multiple-choice format, the links are dynamic to online references, and feedback is interactive with correct and incorrect answers. Please see the website www.casereviewsonline.com to see how the Case Review series has evolved to prepare trainees for the board examinations and practitioners for reading specialty cases. Personally, I am very excited about the future. Join us.

David M. Yousem, MD, MBA

When Drs. Halpert and Fescko declined the invitation to create the online version of the second edition of the Gastrointestinal Imaging Case Review Series, I asked around who was the man in gastrointestinal radiology these days. There was a consensus that the person with the most amazing material and the best talent for creating an online product was Vincent H.S. Low in Western Australia. Vincent accepted the offer eagerly and was immediately productive in creating a whole new feel and attraction to the cases and rewrote the material in expert fashion. The interactive format came alive in his hands, and the result is a vast improvement in the quality of the