CONVENTIONAL NUCLEAR MEDICINE IN PEDIATRICS. A CLINICAL CASE-BASED ATLAS

Preface
• Part 1 General considerations
1. Management of the pediatric patient: a teamwork
2. Radiation exposure
3. The radiologist: nuclear medicine alter ego or best friend?
• Part 2 Clinical pediatric practice
4. Nephrourology
5. Oncology
6. Gastroenterology
7. Rheumatology
8. Pulmonology
9. Cardiology
10. Endocrinology
Miscellaneous.

This superbly illustrated book combines the systematic approach of a textbook with the simplicity of consultation of an atlas in order to provide a comprehensive guide to the applications and benefits of scintigraphic studies in children. All of the clinical scenarios in which conventional nuclear medicine techniques frequently play a role in children are covered, with explanation of imaging diagnosis, the relevance of clinical history, problem solving, and pitfalls. The images themselves are the key focus of the book, and in each setting the added value offered by scintigraphy is carefully identified. The book also describes management of the pediatric patient and addresses general considerations, including reception, interaction with parents, radiopharmaceutical administration, image acquisition, radiation exposure, and the relationship of nuclear medicine and radiology. Since the child is not a young adult, it is insufficient simply to adapt nuclear medicine procedures performed in adults to the age and size of the child. Conventional Nuclear Medicine in Pediatrics will be a rich source of information for all who perform these procedures in the pediatric setting.

Features
• Offers clear guidance on all aspects of scintigraphic studies in children
• Explains methods and imaging results with reference to particular cases
• Contains a wealth of images illustrating the added value of the nuclear medicine study

Authors
• Professor Giovanni Francesco Livio D’Errico works at the Nuclear Medicine Unit of "Pio XI Private Hospital" in Rome and previously taught at the Catholic University "Sacro Cuore". He is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, and Radioguided Surgery. Professor D’Errico is the author of more than 170 national and international publications, as well as the author or editor of various books: for Springer he co-edited the book Radionuclide Imaging of Infection and Inflammation - A Pictorial Case-Based Atlas, published in 2013. He is co-author for the chapter “Methodological aspects of lymphosintigraphy: bicompartimental versus monocompartmental radio colloid administration" on Atlas of Lymphoscintigraphy and sentinel node mapping. A pictorial case-based approach, published in 2013.
• Dr. Maria Carmen Garganese is Head of the Diagnostic Imaging Department - Nuclear Medicine Unit at the Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome. She is a consultant at AIFA (Italian Medicine Agency) in the Working Group on Radionuclides for the pediatrics. She is the author or co-author of 80 publications and of three book chapters, in “Clinical Nuclear Medicine in Pediatrics”, in “Manuale SIGENP di gastroenterologia ed epatologia pediatrica”, in “Radionuclides in Nephrourology.