A new edition in the highly successful Made Easy 'series', this is a small pocketbook that will help the junior doctor in the interpretation of the chest X-ray. It describes the range of conditions likely to be encountered on the wards and guides the doctor through the process of examining and interpreting the film based on the appearance of the abnormality shown. It then assists the doctor in determining the nature of the abnormality and points the clinician towards possible differential diagnosis.

The book covers the range of common radiological problems the junior doctors are faced with, starting with the appearance of the film, e.g. showing generalised shadowing or a coin lesion. It gives advice on how to examine an X-ray, how to check its technical quality and how to identify where the lesion is. All the X-rays are accompanied by a simple line diagram outlining where the abnormality is.

1. How to look at a chest X-ray
2. Localising lesions
3. The white lung field
4. The black lung field
5. The abnormal hilum
6. The abnormal heart shadow
7. The widened mediastinum
8. Abnormal ribs
9. Abnormal soft tissues
10. The hidden abnormality

By Jonathan Corne, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK; Mary Carroll, Consultant Physician, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK; David Delany, Consultant Radiologist, Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton, UK; and Ivan Brown, Fellow in Radiology, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK