Ultrasound in clinical diagnosis: from pioneering developments in lund to global application in medicine

Starting with the first successful echocardiogram using ultrasound performedin Lund on the 29th October 1953, Ultrasound in Clinical Diagnosis tells the history of the development of ultrasound through to the present day use for diagnosis in many areas of medicine. On October 29th 1953 in Lund, Sweden, Inge Edler, cardiologist, and Hellmuth Hertz, physicist, performed the first successful Ultrasoundcardiogram (UCG), later renamed Echocardiogram. A few weeks later, on December 16th, the neurosurgeon Lars Leksell diagnosed an intracranial bleeding in a 16-month-old boy using the same equipment, and Echoencephalography was born. The Lundensian obstetrician Bertil Sundn was in 1962 able to takethe first ultrasound picture of twins inpregnancy. These three world premieres at the Lund University were the foundation for the tremendous development of diagnostic ultrasound.Before it is too late, the history in Lund will be told, and with this history as background Ultrasound in Clinical Diagnosis brings together some of the leading ultrasound experts of today to bring us up to date with the use of ultrasound in its ever-increasing importance for diagnosis in many areas of medicine. Peter Wells writes in his Foreword that "this fascinating book serves morethan one purpose: it is an historical record of the pioneering developments in clinical ultrasonicdiagnosis that took place in Lund... what we now recognise as one of the greatest medical innovations of the twentieth century... Besides its historical content, this book also includes scholarly reviews of the state-of-art in adult and paediatric cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, vascular disease inseveral countries and, primarily from technical perspective, radiology, as well as an overview of contrast studies". Other chapters describe the development in ophthalmology and oto-rhino-laryngology as well as the industrial development of ultrasound equipment. This book will be valuable and interesting to those who are interested in the development of ultrasound diagnosis in medicine. INDICE: Preface Ultrasound in Lund - three world premieres The developmentof echo-cardiography in Sweden Ultrasound in cardiology - state of the art Ultrasound in paediatric cardiology - start of the art The development of echo-encephalography in Sweden The development of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology in Sweden A history of ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology Eugene Strandness and the development of Doppler ultrasound in vascular disease The development of ultrasound in vascular disease in Sweden Ultrasound in vascular disease - state of the art The development of ultrasound in radiology in Sweden The early development of diagnostic ultrasound in Denmark Ultrasound in radiology - state of the art Use of contrast in ultrasound The development of ultrasound in ophthalmology The development of ultrasound in oto-rhino-laryngologyThe industrial development of ultrasound - a Swedish perspective Appendix: The original paper by Edler/Hertz

• ISBN: 978-0-19-960207-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 24/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés