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required care, facility requirements, and indications andcontraindications. The technique section provides an in-depth description of patient preparation, instrument insertion, therapeuticmaneuvers, training issues, risks, and complications. The finalsection covers basic diagnostic categories, from neoplastic to inflammatory disorders of the colon, rectum, and anus. In thissection, the author provides useful illustrations and managementalgorithms for each major disease category.Strengths: The book is well organized, practical, and clearlywritten. For most practitioners, it will be a self-contained, comprehensive reference text that covers most, if not all, aspects of lowergastrointestinal endoscopy.Deficiencies: In maintaining the practical nature of the book, someof the management discussions, such as for malignant polyps, areunderreferenced and oversimplified. In the application section, therelevance of the "author's experience" tables is often inapparent.Recommended Readership: Trainees and clinical practitioners oflower gastroendoscopy, including colorectal surgeons, family practitioners, gastroenterologists, and internists.Overall Grading: ****Heidi Nelson, M.D., Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, MayoClinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota
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Pediatric Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide,edited by Gary R. Strange, William R. Ahrens, Steven Lelyveld, and RobertW. Schafermeyer, 728 pp, with illus, $65, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1996
Childhood Language Disorders (Current Therapy of CommunicationDisorders series), edited by Michael D. Smith and Jack S. Damico, 330 pp,with illus, $45, New York, Thieme Medical Publishers, 1996
Handbook of Gynecologic Oncology, 2nd ed, edited by M. StevenPiver, 369 pp, with iIIus, $32.95, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1996
Practical MRI: A Teaching File, by Jeffrey J. Brown and Franz J.Wippold II, 505 pp, with illus, $125, Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1996
Endoscopic Plastic Surgery, edited by Oscar M. Ramirez and Rollin K.Daniel, 334 pp, with illus, $250, New York, Springer-Verlag, 1996
di Fiore's Atlas of Histology: With Functional Correlations, 8th ed,by Victor P. Eroschenko, 362 pp, with illus, $39, Baltimore, Williams &Wilkins, 1996
Surgical Critical Care, edited by John A. Weigelt and Frank R. Lewis,Jr., 458 pp, with illus, $95, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company, 1996
Exercise Gas Exchange in Heart Disease, edited by KarlmanWasserman, 311 pp, with illus, $65, Armonk, New York, Futura PublishingCompany, 1996
Eye and Skin Disease, edited by Mark J. Mannis, Marian S. Macsai, andArthur C. Huntley, 705 pp, with illus, $225, Philadelphia, Lippincott-RavenPublishers, 1996
Endoscopic Management of Gynecologic Disease, edited by G. DavidAdamson and Daniel C. Martin, 440 pp, with iIIus, $159, Philadelphia,Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1996
Urologic Laparoscopic Surgery, edited by Raul O. Parra, 231 pp, withiIIus, $135, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1996
Imaging ofthe Wrist and Hand, edited by Louis A. Gilula and YumingYin, 614 pp, with iIIus,$125, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company, 1996
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Auditory System Plasticity and Regeneration, edited by Richard J.Salvi, Donald Henderson, Franco Fiorino, and Vittorio Colletti, 412 pp,with iIIus, $75, New York, Thieme Medical Publishers, 1996
Manual of Common Bedside Surgical Procedures, edited by HerbertChen, Juan E. Sola, and Keith D. Lillemoe, 314 pp, with illus, $25.95,Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1996
Trigeminal Neuralgia (Major Problems in Neurology, Vol 28), byJoanna M. Zakrzewska, 229 pp, with ilIus, $69, Philadelphia, W. B.Saunders Company, 1995
Atlas of Neuroradiology, by Steven J. Willing, 625 pp, with ilIus, $135,Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company, 1995
Consultations in Gastroenterology, edited by William J. Snape, Jr.,949 pp, with illus, $125, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company, 1996
Renal and Urologic Aspects of HIV Infection (Contemporary Issues inNephrology, Vol 29), edited by Paul L. Kimmel and Jeffrey S. Berns, 427pp, with illus, $79.95, New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1995
Current Med Talk: A Dictionary of Medical Terms, Slang & Jargon, by Joseph C. Segen, 984 pp, with iIIus, $39.95, P.O. Box 120041,Stamford, CT 06912-0041, Appleton & Lange, 1995
A Guide to Adult Neuropsychological Diagnosis, by Anthony Y.Stringer, 510 pp, with illus, $69.95, Philadelphia, F. A. Davis Company,1996
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (Clinics in Diagnostic Ultrasound, Vol30), edited by Bruno D. Fornage, 246 pp, with iIIus, $150, New York,Churchill Livingstone, 1995
Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain of Vertebral Origin: A ManualMedicine Approach, by Robert Maigne, 550 pp, with iIIus, $95, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1996
Blood Conservation in the Surgical Patient, edited by M. RamezSalem, 445 pp, with illus, $110, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1996
Pharmacology, Biology, and Clinical Applications of Androgens:Current Status and Future Prospects, edited by Shalender Bhasin, HenryL. Gabelnick, Jeffrey M. Spieler, Ronald S. Swerdloff, Christina Wang, andChuck Kelly, 529 pp, with iIIus, $89.95, New York, Wiley-Liss, 1996
Postoperative Care of the Critically III Patient, edited by T. JamesGallagher, 502 pp, with iIIus, $99, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1995
Principles of Manual Medicine, 2nd ed, by Philip E. Greenman, 572 pp,with iIIus, $65, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1996
Tuberculosis, edited by William N. Rom and Stuart M. Garay, 1,002 pp,with iIIus, $179.95, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1996
Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine, 3rd ed (in 2 vols), edited by Martin P.Sandler, R. Edward Coleman, Frans J. T. Wackers, James A. Patton,Alexander Gottschalk, and Paul B. Hoffer, 1,584 pp, with iIIus, $279,Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1996
Grey Cases for Paediatric Examinations (Paediatric Revision series),by David J. Field, John Stroobant, Alan Fenton, Ian Maconochie, andChristopher O'Callaghan, 199 pp, with iIIus, $30.95, New York, ChurchillLivingstone, 1995
The Radiology of Acute Cervical Spine Trauma, 3rd ed, by John H.Harris, Jr., and Stuart E. Mirvis, 512 pp, with illus, $89, Baltimore, Williams& Wilkins, 1996
Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract, 3rd ed, by Richard L.Sweet and Ronald S. Gibbs, 792 pp, with illus, $89, Baltimore, Williams &Wilkins, 1995
Functional Abnormalities of the Aorta, edited by Harisios Boudoulas,Pavlos K. Toutouzas, and Charles F. Wooley, 398 pp, with iIIus, $85,Armonk, New York, Futura Publishing Company, 1996
Cardiogenic Embolism, edited by Werner G. Daniel, Itzhak Kronzon,and Andreas Mugge, 380 pp, with illus, $75, BaJtimore, Williams &Wilkins, 1996
The Textbook of Penetrating Trauma, edited by Rao R. Ivatury and C.Gene Cayten, 1,157 pp, with iIIus, $179, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins,1996
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