This fifth edition presents a complete update of the ultrasound manual for obstetric practice. More than ever, modern obstetrics has become ultrasound-based obstetrics. The update has included a complete overhaul of part of the
This fifth edition features a complete update of the Ultrasound manual for obstetric practiceMore than ever, modern obstetrics has become ultrasound-based. This updated edition includes a revision of part of the text and an expansion to nearly 700 pages. The illustrations have also been modernized and expanded in all chapters (2,000 images). Both text and images are available in the accompanying digital edition (along with approximately forty videos), allowing for both instant navigation throughout the entire work and ubiquitous access.
The plan remains classic: the technical and regulatory aspects of ultrasound during pregnancy, the pregnant uterus and ovaries, the beginning of pregnancy (embryonic development, dating, pathology and ectopic pregnancy), the placenta and fetal annexes, the examination of the normal fetus, the monitoring of fetal growth and vitality, malformative pathology (eight chapters), chromosomal abnormalities, fetal infections and multiple pregnancies.
Some points have been the subject of greater development due to their critical position in current practice: the regulatory aspects of the examination and its report, the recommendations and good practices (French but also foreign), the use of Doppler and the study of the cervix, and above all the screening for chromosomal abnormalities (trisomy 21 in particular) which, rightly or wrongly, focuses a large part of prenatal diagnosis and therefore of ultrasound.
The ambition and spirit of this manual remain the same as they were twenty-five years ago: a good radiology manual for obstetricians and a good book on obstetrics for radiologists.
This is the result of a friendly confrontation, synthesis and compromise, between the two specialties, but also between the field practitioner (clinical emergency, night work, the full waiting room…) and the rigorous theorist, the two characters often being confused within each author.
