Month: April 2014

Editor: Jason L. Hornick, MD, PhD (Part of Part Recognition Series: Series Editors: Kevin O. Leslie and Mark R. Wick) Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 555 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This is an extensive reference book for a comprehensive array of conditions, disorders and diseases in soft-tissue cells. It presents classifications of various sarcomas and tumors – malignant and benign. Below are the key functional features of this book. It helps you: Identify frequently encountered soft-tissue malignancies with a pattern-recognition approach. Compare specimens and categorize them accordingly with a helpful pattern-based visual index and lavish collection of full-color...

Editors: Robin K.S. Phillips, MBBS, FRCS and Sue Clark, MD, FRCS Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 315 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book has been produced for surgeons in higher training and for practicing specialist surgical consultants. This fifth edition offers evidence-based current, updated information that you can use as a reference source on recent developments, management issues, and operative procedures in your field of practice. Material for the 18 chapters of this book was authored by the editors and contributors totaling 31 mainly from the United Kingdom as well as: France, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, and the...

Editors: Stephen T. Kee, Ravi Murthy, and David C. Madoff Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 378 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Interventional oncology is a fast-developing specialty in medicine with numerous new discoveries as the fight against cancer intensifies, and many doctors and patients have become victorious. Bu there is one caveat: patients must get themselves diagnosed as quickly as they get any symptom whatsoever and become suspicious or worried. Many a battle has been lost when the patient is already in an advanced stage of cancer. The editors of this book write (I’m surprised) that it is fault...

Author: Gregory T. MacLennan, MD. Illustrated by the late Paul H. Stempen, MA, AMI Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 368 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book was first conceived and developed by the late Dr. Frank Hinman Jr. In his Preface the author writes that among Dr. Hinman had these related reasons for coming out with this book:  To compile information from many sources, including his own studies, for use by urologists  To create a single, comprehensive, and well-organized textbook that could be consulted quickly and efficiently by urologic surgeons to assist them in planning and performing surgical...

A volume in the Elsevier Insights series, providing specialized content across a range of disciplines: life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, computing, and finance. Author: Sung Kwun Chough Publisher: Elsevier – 363 pages Book Review by: Venkat Subramaniam The Korean Peninsula has a rugged physical landscape. It consists of “scenic mountains that run one after another,” according to the author, and as shown in a satellite image and a geographic map on pages 2 and 3, respectively, of this book. He continues his description of the geology of this peninsula:”These features have descended from crustal deformation and associated...