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?

by Michael O. Blackstone, New York, Raven Press, 575 pp, with illus, $95, 1984.

JOHN S. GOFF, MD, Reviewer
Denver

Arch Surg. 1985;120(4):505.

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

Today more and more physicians are either performing endoscopies or referring their patients for endoscopic procedures. Thus, there is an increasing need for good textbooks that describe and illustrate endoscopic findings.

Dr Blackstone has produced a very comprehensive text on the endoscopic appearance of the gastrointestinal tract. The numerous color illustrations are of good to exceptional quality, and each one is carefully described. Normal findings are compared and contrasted with pathologic states that range from the uncommon to the most unusual, as well as those created by surgical interventions.

The author does not just catalogue the findings, he discusses their significance, frequency, and clinical relevance based on the literature and on the extensive experience of physicians at the endoscopy laboratory of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Thus, this text also represents a new reference source for endoscopic findings in a large group of patients seen at a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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