Osborn's Brain 1st Edition

After reading 70% of both books, I feel I have a decent grasp on strengths and weaknesses of this book and how it compares to Requisites.STRENGTHS-The biggest strength of this book lies in how things are explained. This is the biggest difference from Requisites. For each chapter, she lays down plan for the chapter. Then for each category of diseases, she gives you a background knowledge that will help you understand better. THEN, for each pathology, there is 'terminology', 'etiology', 'pathology', 'clinical issues' (ie presentation), 'imaging' and 'differential dx'. When you are trying to learn a difficult topic like neuro, it really helps to have better understanding from basics like "what does the term mean?", pathology, how it is catagorized and the processes. This book this does very well. Requisites merely gives you very brief explanation for each dx process.-Excellent images: includes radiological images but also illustrations to make key points or to lay down foundation. These images are from StatDx and are excellent. Requisites images are terrible and not sufficient in number. The paper it was printed on is for texts and not for images like most radiology texts are. Requisite in this aspect is really cutting corners and compromising quality. This is a radiology text. Images can't take a back seat, in my opinion.-Categorization of brain tumors: very nicely done. It makes more sense when someone who knows the material to find ways to show you in ways that helps to compartmentalize vast amount of information so you can begin to make mental files on what goes where rather than just a lot of info written on pages.WEAKNESSES-Images do not have headings. Unless you are reading the text from beginning of each section of the chapter and finding the image number that sentence is referring, you don't know what each image is about unless you read the entire description of each image written adjacent to it (and it can be 1-2 sentences long). This is a big time sink and a hassle since sometimes you are not reading the entire section from the beginning. This is an issue since images on that page many times don't necessarily correspond to the text on that page.-Many abbreviations! Many of them you just know what they are. But then many others you have no idea. So, you have to either go to the end of the book to look up from the abbreviation list or search in earlier pages to look for it. Another time sink. Not good.I bought this book although I'm not going into neuroradiology. I was just hoping this book can help me better understand concepts which Requisites couldn't.It is an expensive book. But, I thought it was worth it. Had I known about this book, I wouldn't have purchased Requisites.

I have been learning radiology for more than thirty years now, and have naturally read some textbooks in neuroradiology. Several of the those books were written by the author of this book, and I have never been disappointed, even though my expectations were rather high for her books.Practically speaking, this 'Brain' is a textbook to read through, not for a quick reference like her another strain of books for the purpose such as Diagnostic Imaging Brain. Recently, I'm, sort of, tired of quick-reference-type of books and was looking for something to sit with. In this textbook, the fonts are bigger and figures are plentiful, and it is possible to learn how to systematically think in front of the daily neuroradiology cases.Lastly, for those people who would like to use this book for a quick reference, I think it is also good for the purpose despite of what I have said so far, as the contents are nicely organized and the descriptions are separated for each category and disease entity. Simply, a wonderful gift to our professional community.// added comment after reading the whole book from cover to cover //Now I can give you some analysis why this book is amazingly great.# The writing style is consistent throughout the book, including the figure captions.# The author carefully focuses the description of a disease to key points rather than derails into an unrestrained long narrative, while maintaining a healthy amount of repetition and redundancy to allow readers to learn the core concepts naturally.# The anatomical reviews are, if necessary, given up-front in the chapters, to save readers' co-lateral effort.# Great figures, especially the graphic depictions of the anatomy and typical disease patterns# Not too small font size, no small matter, especially to senior readers# Categorized 'selected references' comes with a practical quantity# Personally, I found the Differential Diagnosis part most attractive, where the author's succinct comments convey the points to weigh.A page-turner! Bravo!

Dr. Osborn is well-known among radiologists. Many have attended at least one of her lectures during training or at AFIP. Her last neuroradiology book (i.e. the "red" book) was released in 1994. The text was highly recommended for it's readability and coverage of intracranial pathology however was becoming outdated when I was in training.This new textbook is updated with all new illustrations and cases. There are updates to the concepts of certain disease processes such as MS along with numerous illustrations of anatomy, pathology slides, and MR/CT studies for each disease/pathology. There are also examples of perfusion/CTA/MRA studies when appropriate.Like her lectures she does an excellent job of highlighting the key points of each disease/pathology that help you narrow down the differential diagnosis in real life. The book is at it's best when she discusses her thought process and approach in formulating an appropriate but narrow differential diagnosis. Flip to pages 721-724 where she gives her approach to sellar masses for an excellent example.The only minor complaints I have is there are alot of acronyms in the text. I think it's fine as the font size is a nice size and the textbook is already fairly large. There are a few typos and errors in the illustrations and cases but they were easy to pick out. The use of black and white arrows can be confusing at times when trying to match the description to the illustration.This book would be excellent for an upper-level resident/fellow or for practicing radiologists looking to learn more or build upon their knowledge of neuroradiology. The first section on trauma and the section on stroke would be a great start for a lower-level resident. It's easy to pick a section of interest and read up on it as the book does not demand you read it front-to-back.

Sections with differential diagnostis are nicely done.

...ich fremdle seit jahren mit den diagnostic imaging werken (man muss schon ziemlich genau wissen, was man sucht, sonst gibt's nur frustranes seitenblättern..), habe dennoch beinahe alle und benutze sie auch fleissig.schlicht in ermangelung anderer, ähnlich gut bebilderter werke.dass die autorensprache guter, insbesondere radiologischer fachliteratur zumeist englisch ist, ist für den "fortgeschrittenen" bereits "täglich brot" und stellt keine barriere mehr dar.mit diesem buch hat Mrs. Osborne jetzt endlich ein buch ganz nach meinem geschmack verfasst:knappe, einprägsame texte und unmengen von bildern, die jedes thema auch hinsichtlich weniger häufiger aspekte und variabler bildmorphologien beleuchten. eben auch nicht nur den klassischen lehrbuch aspekt findet man, sondern eben auch, was der radiologe/neuroradiologe tatsächlich in der praxis zu sehen bekommt...das nicht- typische findet auch seinen platz bei Anne.ich persönlich habe bislang wirklich alles in diesem buch gefunden, was mir der arbeitsalltag in der neuroradiologie, auch auf universitärem niveau, bietet.zwar kann/sollte/muss man für einzelne themen auch einen blick in andere werke werfen, würde ich mich aber für eines entscheiden müssen, wäre es sicher dieses.herzlichen dank, Anne!

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Ottimo testo, perfettamente rilegato e corredato di foto stupende, fondamentale per chi vuole un libro da consultare rapidamente, ma in maniera approfondita, sugli argomenti che propone.

un testo che abbina anche elementi clinici, oltre che anatomopatologici e radiologici (nonché disegni che esemplificano la lettura delle immagini). Era il tassello che mancava, dopo il testo-atlante storico delle Osborn.