Month: July 2015

Editors: Joseph Janovic, MD and Eduardo Tolosa, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 576 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Since the first edition of this book was released 27 years ago in 1988, “extraordinary advances” have been made in the study of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, Drs. Janovic and Tolosa point out in their Preface. While these advances were discussed in four other editions between the first and the current sixth edition, the primary goal of this book you are reading is to highly and critically review all this progress. At the...

Editors: Robert Riddell. MD and Dhanpat Jain, MD Clinical Editors: Charles Bernstein, MD and Sushovan Guha, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 1,547 pages (Volumes 1 and 2) Book Review by: Nano Khilnani A lot of knowledge has been discovered since the first edition of this book was published 22 years ago in 2013. This second edition contains that new information, along with deeper insight developed by its authors since then. It can be used as a resource on a daily basis for challenging diagnoses, when encountering an unfamiliar lesion or disorder, or when guidelines...

Editors: J. Larry Jameson, MD; and Leslie J. de Groot, MD Associate Editors: David M. de Kretser, MD; Linda C. Guidice, MD; Ashley B. Grossman, MD; Shlomo Melmed, MB, John T. Potts, Jr., MD; and Gordon C. Weir, MD Publisher: Elsevier Saunders – 2,687 pages, plus Index (two volumes) Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The editors write that this textbook has been an authoritative source of information in the field of endocrinology for over 35 years. This seventh edition covers a lot of ground in breadth and depth, and from the list of its Parts below, you can attest...

(Part of the series on Advances in Surgical Pathology) Editors: Andreana Rivera, MD and Hidehiro Takei, MD. Series Editors: Philip T. Cagle, MD and Timothy C. Allen, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 257 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Brain cancer is a very rare disease affectingly only one to two percent of all those who contract cancer in the United States. But the level of morbidity (severity of sickness) is significant among those who have it. And the mortality rate is also quite high, meaning that only a few among those who get...

(Part of the series on Operative Techniques) Editor: Mary T. Hawn, MD. Series Editor: Michael W. Mulholland, MD Publisher: Wolters Kluwer | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins – 372 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Foregut surgery is not only complex and technically demanding, it is also rapidly evolving as new techniques tried for better results, savings of effort and time, are adopted, the editors of this important volume point out. Certainly there are other textbooks available – on general, thoracic, transplant, and vascular surgery – that cover a range of procedures, but this book is comprehensive because it not...