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Reeder and Felson’s Gamuts in Radiology on CDRom. MM Reeder, WC Bradley. Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York/London/Paris/Tokyo/Hong Kong, 1996. Gamuts in Radiology is a well-known book in the world of radiology. It is very useful as it is composed of numerous lists of diagnoses classified by one more radiological sign. It therefore permits. through crosslistings, to choose the most probable diagnosis of a disease. The new medium of this third edition is a CD-ROM, offering an automated analysis of numerous signs. It is augmented by 250 new gamuts, of which three-fourths of the gamuts are updated and a series of gamuts in MRI are added. The more common diseases are illustrated; unfortunately, some of the illustrations are not of very good quality. The gamuts are also completed by the most important and noted of radiology. This CD-ROM is very practical and can be used on a personal computer with a CD-ROM drive (the version that we analyzed was available for the PC platform only). Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine. Volume 5: Plasmids to Synthetic Peptide and Nonpeptide Combinational Libraries. RA Meyers, ed. VCH. Weinheim/New York/Basel/Cambridge/Tokyo, 1996. This six volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive, detailed treatment of molecular biology and molecular medicine available today. Volume 5 features articles covering topics from plasmids to synthetic peptide and nonpeptide combinational libraries. * The Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Moleculibrary of lar Medicine provides a single-source molecular genetics and the molecular basis of life, with a focus on molecular medicine. Genetic screening, gene therapy, structural biology and the technology and findings of the Human Genome Project are discussed in de?ail. The articles that comprise the set are designed as selfcontained treatments. Each of the nearly 300 articles
begins with an outline and a key word section which includes definitions. These features assist the scientist or student who is unfamiliar with a specific subject area. A glossary of basic terms completes each volume and defines the most commonly used terms in molecular biology. Together with the introductory illustrations found in each volume, these definitions enable readers to understand articles without referring to a dictionary, textbook or other reference. An Advisory Board comprised of renowned experts worldwide, Nobel Prize winners. National Medal of Science recipients and directors of prestigious institutes and university departments guarantees thle high quality and comprehensive scope of this work. University biology and medical libraries will find thlat this Encyclopedia is one of the central sources of information in the field. Industrial libraries at pharmaceutical, chemical, biological and biotechnological companies. as well as government institutes and hospital libraries, will benefit from the high quality of the scientific texts and clear depiction of the most active research areas. Moreover, this encyclopedia will serve as a core reference in university and departmental libraries in physics, chemistry, engineering and mathematics, where researchers will be able to examine the application of their disciplines to molecular biology a.nd molecular medicine. The Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas. 2nd Edition. IT Magrath, ed. Arnold, London, 1996. In its first edition, this book established itself as the classic text on non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. In this second, considerably expanded edition, approximately twothirds of the text and illustrations are new, and the remaining third has been extensively revised. Detailed information is now given on recently defined subtypes of lymphoma which were mentioned only briefly before. It covers all aspects of these conditions, including epidemiology, pathogenesis, pathology, molecular characteristics, clinical features, diagnosis and treatment.