This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

edited by Orlo H. Clark, MD, and Shiro Noguchi, MD, 447 pp, with illus, $99, ISBN 1-57626-116-6, St Louis, Mo, Quality Medical Publishing Inc, 2000.

Arch Surg. 2000;135:1475.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

This volume has a several of unique features, commencing with the editorship; both editors are eminent surgeons in the field of endocrine surgery and come from the United States and Japan. The book is comprehensive in the area of a relatively uncommon malignancy, the authorship deriving from North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Japan. It purports to cover the globe and acknowledges geographic differences in both the incidence and the behavior of thyroid cancer. The next edition may extend its authorship to Asia, the antipodes, and Oceania; this event is to be savored in advance.

The volume is authoritative and contains a fine mixture of collective experience, analytic review, and evaluation of "cutting-edge" techniques. The evidentiary material is somewhat thin in relation to randomized controlled trials, but available information is effectively incorporated. The editors have maintained clinical relevance throughout the volume and provide useful commentary, which will be helpful, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?