Radiological Signs: The Key to Clinical Diagnosis
Gerardo Villegas López, Viridiana Perez Correa, Nabile Andrea Covarrubias, Ma del Pilar Gonzalez, Luz Gisela Cárdenas, Ana Luisa Zapata, Rolando Torres, Juan Alberto Garay, Jose Álvaro Zuluaga, Sergio Ernesto Miranda, Alberto Conrado Beltran, Froylán Mendoza, Jorge Luis Ramirez and Jorge Alexis Zuñiga
Since the first years of university medical education, it was difficult to remember the names of diseases,
eponyms, pathways, gyral tracts, convolutions and other neuroanatomical structures.
Semiology is the branch of medicine that studies, interprets and arranges the signs and symptoms of
diseases in order to arrive at a diagnosis.
Radiological semiology is the art and science of diagnosis by means of images, thanks to which we can
reach a presumptive diagnosis.
In radiology, to perform a correct semiology, it is necessary to have knowledge of different areas such
as anatomy, physiology, pathology, if the patient has been previously treated or if the study is performed
after a surgical approach.
