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Ultrasound: The Core Requisites

The Core Requisites

  • 4th Edition - April 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: William Dana Middleton, Tara A. Morgan, David T. Fetzer
  • Language: English

Focusing on high-yield information, Ultrasound: The Core Requisites, 4th Edition, emphasizes the basics to help you establish a foundational understanding of ultrasound for r… Read more

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Description

Focusing on high-yield information, Ultrasound: The Core Requisites, 4th Edition, emphasizes the basics to help you establish a foundational understanding of ultrasound for reference and review needs of residents, fellows, and practicing physicians. This edition also includes thorough updates on essential emerging topics, including contrast-enhanced ultrasound and elastography, all in a completely rewritten, reorganized and easy-to-read format.

Key features

  • Helps you build and solidify core knowledge to prepare you for clinical practice with critical, up-to-date information on everything from basic principles to advanced state-of-the-art techniques in ultrasound
  • Covers the full spectrum of ultrasound use for general, vascular, obstetric, and gynecologic imaging
  • Adds new or expanded topics including practical physics and image optimization, liver masses and gallbladder polyps, small parts including hernias and soft tissue masses, chest and lung diseases, ectopic pregnancy and early pregnancy failure, management of asymptomatic adnexal cysts, and current practice guidelines
  • Includes high-yield boxes and tables throughout that highlight differential diagnoses and summarize findings
  • Contains many new and updated figures of anatomy and pathology, additional correlative imaging, and new schematics demonstrating important concepts and findings
  • Features more than 300 video clips depicting ultrasound findings
  • Published as part of the newly reimagined Core Requisites series, an update to the popular Requisites series aimed at radiology trainees and today’s busy clinicians
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date

Readership

Radiology residents

Table of contents

SECTION 1 PRACTICAL PHYSICS
Chapter 1 Image Generation
Chapter 2 Image Optimization
Chapter 3 Ultrasound Artifacts

SECTION 2 HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM
Chapter 4 Liver Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 5 Parenchymal Disease and Liver Infections
Chapter 6 Liver Masses
Chapter 7 Liver Vasculature
Chapter 8 Liver Transplant
Chapter 9 Gallbladder Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 10 Luminal Abnormalities of the Gallbladder
Chapter 11 Gallbladder Wall Abnormalities
Chapter 12 Cholecystitis
Chapter 13 Bile Duct Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 14 Luminal Abnormalities of the Bile Ducts
Chapter 15 Bile Duct Wall Abnormalities

SECTION 3 PANCREAS AND SPLEEN
Chapter 16 Pancreas Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 17 Pancreatitis
Chapter 18 Pancreatic Masses
Chapter 19 Pancreas Transplantation
Chapter 20 Spleen

SECTION 4 URINARY
Chapter 21 Kidneys: Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 22 Kidney Parenchyma
Chapter 23 Cystic Masses of the Kidney
Chapter 24 Kidney Neoplasms
Chapter 25 Kidney Collecting System
Chapter 26 Kidney Vasculature
Chapter 27 Kidney Transplant
Chapter 28 Bladder and Urethra

SECTION 5 MALE GENITAL
Chapter 29 Scrotal Anatomy and Ultrasound Technique
Chapter 30 Intratesticular Lesions
Chapter 31 Extratesticular Lesions
Chapter 32 Scrotal Torsion and Trauma
Chapter 33 Scrotal Infections
Chapter 34 The Prostate and Penis

SECTION 6 BOWEL
Chapter 35 Bowel

SECTION 7 BODY SPACES
Chapter 36 Peritoneum
Chapter 37 Retroperitoneum

SECTION 8 HEAD AND NECK
Chapter 38 Thyroid
Chapter 39 Parathyroid
Chapter 40 Salivary Glands
Chapter 41 Neck Masses

SECTION 9 VASCULAR
Chapter 42 Aorta, IVC, and Splanchnic Vessels
Chapter 43 Cerebrovascular
Chapter 44 Peripheral Arteries
Chapter 45 Peripheral Veins

SECTION 10 SUPERFICIAL SOFT TISSUES
Chapter 46 Hernias
Chapter 47 Superficial Soft Tissue Masses
Chapter 48 Superficial Soft Tissue Infections, Fluid Collections, and Foreign Bodies

SECTION 11 MUSCULOSKELETAL
Chapter 49 Tendons and Muscles
Chapter 50 Joints and Bones
Chapter 51 Nerves

SECTION 12 CHEST
Chapter 52 Chest

SECTION 13 UTERUS
Chapter 53 Uterus Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 54 Congenital Uterine Anomalies
Chapter 55 Myometrial Abnormalities
Chapter 56 Endometrial Abnormalities
Chapter 57 Cervix and Vagina Abnormalities
Chapter 58 Postpartum Uterus

SECTION 14 OVARIES
Chapter 59 Ovaries: Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 60 Physiologic and Benign Focal Lesions of the Ovary
Chapter 61 Ovarian Neoplasms and O-RADS
Chapter 62 Ovarian Torsion

SECTION 15 ADNEXA
Chapter 63 Adnexa

SECTION 16 OBSTETRICAL ULTRASOUND EXAM GUIDELINES
Chapter 64 First-Trimester Imaging Parameters
Chapter 65 Second and Third Trimester Imaging Parameters

SECTION 17 PRENATAL SCREENING AND ANEUPLOIDY
Chapter 66 First-Trimester Screening
Chapter 67 Second-Trimester Screening

SECTION 18 FIRST TRIMESTER
Chapter 68 First-Trimester Viability and Anatomy
Chapter 69 Ectopic Pregnancy
Chapter 70 Gestational Trophoblastic Disease for Ultrasound

SECTION 19 FETAL WELL BEING
Chapter 71 Fetal Well-Being, Amniotic Fluid Volume, and Hydrops

SECTION 20 PLACENTA
Chapter 72 Placenta Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 73 Placenta Previa and Accreta Spectrum
Chapter 74 Placental Hemorrhage and Masses

SECTION 21 UMBILICAL CORD
Chapter 75 Umbilical Cord for Ultrasound

SECTION 22 GRAVID CERVIX
Chapter 76 Gravid Cervix

SECTION 23 FETAL THORAX
Chapter 77 Fetal Thoracic Anatomy and Ultrasound Techniques
Chapter 78 Fetal Cardiac Anomalies
Chapter 79 Fetal Thoracic Extracardiac Abnormalities

SECTION 24 FETAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Chapter 80 Fetal Cranial Anatomy
Chapter 81 Fetal Intracranial Anomalies
Chapter 82 Fetal Spine
Chapter 83 Fetal Face and Neck

SECTION 25 FETAL GI TRACT
Chapter 84 Fetal Abdominal Wall
Chapter 85 Fetal Bowel
Chapter 86 Fetal Hepatobiliary

SECTION 26 FETAL GENITOURINARY TRACT
Chapter 87 Fetal Urinary Tract
Chapter 88 Fetal Adrenal Glands and Genital Tracts

SECTION 27 FETAL MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
Chapter 89 Fetal Musculoskeletal Anatomy and Abnormalities
Chapter 90 Fetal Skeletal Dysplasias

SECTION 28 MULTIPLE GESTATIONS
Chapter 91 Types of Multiple Gestations
Chapter 92 Complications of Multiple Gestations

Review quotes

Reviews of the previous edition:
“…this book upholds the high standards of the Requisites series and will be invaluable to both novice and experienced practitioners alike…if I could afford to buy only one text this year, I’d have this one.”

"This book is of value not only for radiologists but also for obstetricians and gynecologists. It is a well-written book and is highly recommended." --Christina Kinnander, Herlev Hospital on behalf of Acta Radiologica, November 2015

"…this book upholds the high standards of the Requisites series and will be invaluable to both novice and experienced practitioners alike…if I could afford to buy only one text this year, I’d have this one." --RAD Magazine, March 2016

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 13, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

WM

William Dana Middleton

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Radiology, Director of Ultrasonography, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

DF

David T. Fetzer

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Medical Director, Ultrasound, UT Southwestern Medical Center; Chief, Abdominal Imaging Interventional Services, Medical Director, Ultrasound, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas, USA