Month: December 2015

Editors and Authors: Giovanni Felisati, MD and Matteo Chiapasaco, MD Publisher: Thieme – 146 pages, with 302 illustrations Book Review by: Nano Khilnani This book is unique. It focuses on a complicated, inter-related set of problems relating to the nasal and oral regions, the solutions to which, the editors and authors named above write, are not found in any other combined resource elsewhere, other than this book with text and images, and its surgical videos. Drs. Giovanni Felisati and Matteo Chiapasco write that this book and the accompanying videos shed light on “a complex set of clinical problems spanning...

Editors: Frank W. Sellke, MD; Pedro J. del Nido, MD; and Scott J. Swanson, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 2,496 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The chest or thorax is a large section of the upper part of the human anatomy. It is one of the main components of this upper part of our bodies, the others being the head and the abdomen. Located between the neck and the abdomen as a matter of fact, the thorax includes the thoracic wall and the thoracic cavity. The main organs in the thorax are the heart (and surrounding arteries, veins, and...

Authors: Andrew J. Connolly, MD; Walter E. Finkbeiner, MD; Philip C. Ursell, MD and Richard L. Davis, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 392 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Autopsy is the art and science of postmortem examinations, and this book is useful for practicing pathologists, pathology assistants, trainees, students of pathology, and anyone else interested. This medical specialty, commonly known as the causal study of disease, has many other subspecialties, besides autopsy pathology. Among other subspecialties are: anatomical pathology (with several sub-sub specialties relating to different parts of the body), clinical pathology, forensic pathology, molecular pathology, oral and maxillofacial...

Editors: Donald Y.M. Leung, MD; Stanley J. Szefler, MD; Francisco A. Bonilla, MD; Cezmi A. Akdis, MD; and Hugh A. Sampson, MD Publisher: Elsevier – 553 pages Book Review by: Hiro Motiram This book aims to inform the reader, who is presumed to be a student or practitioner in pediatric allergies, and on the physiology and patho-physiology of (and responses to) allergic diseases such as atopic dermatitis, food allergy, immunodeficiency, rhinitis, and other related ailments, conditions, and situations. This is the combined work of people who have the education, experience, expertise, and knowledge of the topics discussed in this...

Editor: Bogdian Czerniak, MD, PhD Publisher: Elsevier – 1,506 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The findings revealed in the second edition of this large book are partly from about 11,500 benign and malignant bone tumor cases handled by various doctors, around 8,400 malignant bone tumor cases of the National Cancer Institute, and some 9,500 consultation cases of Dr. Howard Dorfman, who is now retired but was co-editor of the first edition of this book that was published about 10 years ago. This type of book in the area of skeletal pathology based on empirical data is rather rare....