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Handbook of Endometrial Pathology, 1st Edition
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Evidence-Based Neurosurgery: An Introduction, 1st Edition
Purpose: Board review for vascular trainees as well as an interactive source for vascular surgeons to refresh or expand their knowledge.
Authors: Haines, Stephen J., MD; Walters, Beverly C., MD, MSc
Audience: Vascular surgeons and trainees, and surgical residents.
Bibliographic Data: (ISBN: 1-58890-391-5 Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2006, $89.95) 90 pages, hard cover.
Features: Most of the major topics in clinical vascular surgery are covered in a case scenario format, which makes the text highly readable. Each topic is presented as a tangible clinical situation and the commentary at the conclusion of the chapter states the salient learning points. The angiographic and patient images are particularly well placed in the book. There are only a limited number of noninvasive testing, ultrasound, CT angiography, and MRA images; more would have enhanced certain case scenarios. Endoluminal therapy for extracranial occlusive disease and infrainguinal occlusive disease was not discussed and will need to be included in the third edition.
Subject: Neurosurgery Description: Evidence-based medicine has led to the development of protocols to guide complex procedures. This is even more important in a field such as neurosurgery, where complexity determines its daily activities. Purpose: To address the main neurosurgical procedures and controversies in a systematic manner. The book fully meets the authors’ objectives. Audience: Neurosurgeons are the main target audience for this book.
Assessment: This well written book offers a valuable method for learning and reviewing the major topics in vascular surgery. Replacement of the first edition with the second is justified because of the different case scenarios, the addition of the topic of vascular access, and the expansion of the chapter on venous problems. Including algorithms and decision trees may have been helpful in the commentary. Including more scenarios relating to endoluminal therapies for vascular problems would make the book more complete. Offering an electronic version would allow readers to link questions to commentary quickly and easily and would make the book even more attractive.
Features: The book is divided by topics and each topic covers some of the more controversial aspects of the field. My favorite section is the cerebrovascular, which mentions recent papers on carotid endarterectomy, prediction of aneurysm rupture, and influence of treatment on patient prognoses. Assessment: This is an excellent, easy to read, small book. I see no major drawbacks in this book except that it should contain a chapter on neuroendovascular, because it is a rapidly emerging neurosurgical subspecialty. Score: Numerical Weighted Score: 80 Reviewed by: Celso Agner, MD, MSc (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Score: Numerical Weighted Score: 90 Reviewed by: Katherine Brown, DO (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Vascular Surgery: Cases, Questions and Commentaries, 2nd Edition
Handbook of Endometrial Pathology, 1st Edition
Editors: Geroulakos, George, MD, Hobson, Robert W II, MD
Editors: Khong, T Yee; Ismail, Sezkin M
Bibliographic Data: (ISBN: 1-85233-963-2, Springer, 2006, $79.95) 522 pages, hard cover.
Bibliographic Data: (ISBN:1-84184-367-9, Informa Healthcare/Taylor & Francis, 2005, $149.95) 314 pages, hardcover.
Subject: Vascular Surgery Description: This second edition covers the basic topics in vascular surgery with a case presentation format. Each patient case is presented with pertinent data and images, followed by questions testing the reader’s knowledge and clinical decision making about each case scenario. The commentary at the end of each scenario allows readers to compare their answers with those of the authors while offering current references for each topic.
© 2007 by the American College of Surgeons Published by Elsevier Inc.
Subjects: Pathology, Obstetrics & Gynecology Description: This pathology handbook is a visually appealing, easy to use book. For such a compact book, there is a surprising number of color images (more than 300), the vast majority microscopic pictures of good quality and size. In fact, the images make up almost as much of the book as the text; a few helpful tables are also sprinkled in.
A35
ISSN 1072-7515/07/$32.00 doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.10.029
A36
Book Reviews
Purpose: It is intended as a “bench book (that) distills the literature in an accessible manner while retaining a practical histopathological outlook.” Audience: The book is geared mainly toward training and practicing pathologists involved with endometrial pathology. Features: Equally divided between non-neoplastic and neoplastic topics, the book contains 10 chapters with a modest list of references at the end of each. “Sampling the endometrium” is a concise opener that describes sampling techniques, clinical indications requiring sampling, and artifacts associated with endometrial specimens. Nonneoplastic chapters are divided into the normal endometrium, pregnancy, endometrial inflammation, functional disorders and dysfunctional bleeding, and iatrogenic disease. Of these, the latter is the most detailed, demonstrating the effects of hormonal and physical interferences of the endometrium. The last four chapters of the book discuss benign and malignant neoplastic conditions of the endometrium: benign tumors and tumor-like conditions, endometrial hyperplasia, malignant neoplasms, and gestational
J Am Coll Surg
trophoblastic disease. For difficult lesions, the authors emphasize not only the differential diagnosis, but also the route to the proper diagnosis. Clinical correlates of pathology are presented, which makes this book doubly useful. The authors do acknowledge that recent developments of unknown or unproven utility are not mentioned. The best parts of the book are the color pictures and accompanying legends. Assessment: Though not specifically billed for endometrial biopsies, this book may prove to be best used in this context. Overall, the succinct discussions, along with the numerous photomicrographs, present the core information necessary for signing out endometrial cases in a simple and accessible manner. It is a little unexpected that the chapter on functional disorders and dysfunctional bleeding, a common source of frustration for residents in training, is the shortest chapter, only five pages. Score: Numerical Weighted Score: 86 Reviewed by: Xiao Yun Wang, BS, MD (University of Kansas Medical Center)
Ratings are divided into five groups 97-100 90-96 69-89 47-68 below 46
Exceptional book with nearly flawless execution Outstanding book, with minor problems in execution Very good book, but usually with one or more fairly significant flaws Average book, ususally with several flaws (or one major flaw) or significant weakness versus its competition Substandard book
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Evidence-Based Neurosurgery: An Introduction, 1st Edition
Purpose: Board review for vascular trainees as well as an interactive source for vascular surgeons to refresh or expand their knowledge.
Authors: Haines, Stephen J., MD; Walters, Beverly C., MD, MSc
Audience: Vascular surgeons and trainees, and surgical residents.
Bibliographic Data: (ISBN: 1-58890-391-5 Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2006, $89.95) 90 pages, hard cover.
Features: Most of the major topics in clinical vascular surgery are covered in a case scenario format, which makes the text highly readable. Each topic is presented as a tangible clinical situation and the commentary at the conclusion of the chapter states the salient learning points. The angiographic and patient images are particularly well placed in the book. There are only a limited number of noninvasive testing, ultrasound, CT angiography, and MRA images; more would have enhanced certain case scenarios. Endoluminal therapy for extracranial occlusive disease and infrainguinal occlusive disease was not discussed and will need to be included in the third edition.
Subject: Neurosurgery Description: Evidence-based medicine has led to the development of protocols to guide complex procedures. This is even more important in a field such as neurosurgery, where complexity determines its daily activities. Purpose: To address the main neurosurgical procedures and controversies in a systematic manner. The book fully meets the authors’ objectives. Audience: Neurosurgeons are the main target audience for this book.
Assessment: This well written book offers a valuable method for learning and reviewing the major topics in vascular surgery. Replacement of the first edition with the second is justified because of the different case scenarios, the addition of the topic of vascular access, and the expansion of the chapter on venous problems. Including algorithms and decision trees may have been helpful in the commentary. Including more scenarios relating to endoluminal therapies for vascular problems would make the book more complete. Offering an electronic version would allow readers to link questions to commentary quickly and easily and would make the book even more attractive.
Features: The book is divided by topics and each topic covers some of the more controversial aspects of the field. My favorite section is the cerebrovascular, which mentions recent papers on carotid endarterectomy, prediction of aneurysm rupture, and influence of treatment on patient prognoses. Assessment: This is an excellent, easy to read, small book. I see no major drawbacks in this book except that it should contain a chapter on neuroendovascular, because it is a rapidly emerging neurosurgical subspecialty. Score: Numerical Weighted Score: 80 Reviewed by: Celso Agner, MD, MSc (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Score: Numerical Weighted Score: 90 Reviewed by: Katherine Brown, DO (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)
Vascular Surgery: Cases, Questions and Commentaries, 2nd Edition
Handbook of Endometrial Pathology, 1st Edition
Editors: Geroulakos, George, MD, Hobson, Robert W II, MD
Editors: Khong, T Yee; Ismail, Sezkin M
Bibliographic Data: (ISBN: 1-85233-963-2, Springer, 2006, $79.95) 522 pages, hard cover.
Bibliographic Data: (ISBN:1-84184-367-9, Informa Healthcare/Taylor & Francis, 2005, $149.95) 314 pages, hardcover.
Subject: Vascular Surgery Description: This second edition covers the basic topics in vascular surgery with a case presentation format. Each patient case is presented with pertinent data and images, followed by questions testing the reader’s knowledge and clinical decision making about each case scenario. The commentary at the end of each scenario allows readers to compare their answers with those of the authors while offering current references for each topic.
© 2007 by the American College of Surgeons Published by Elsevier Inc.
Subjects: Pathology, Obstetrics & Gynecology Description: This pathology handbook is a visually appealing, easy to use book. For such a compact book, there is a surprising number of color images (more than 300), the vast majority microscopic pictures of good quality and size. In fact, the images make up almost as much of the book as the text; a few helpful tables are also sprinkled in.
A35
ISSN 1072-7515/07/$32.00 doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2006.10.029
A36
Book Reviews
Purpose: It is intended as a “bench book (that) distills the literature in an accessible manner while retaining a practical histopathological outlook.” Audience: The book is geared mainly toward training and practicing pathologists involved with endometrial pathology. Features: Equally divided between non-neoplastic and neoplastic topics, the book contains 10 chapters with a modest list of references at the end of each. “Sampling the endometrium” is a concise opener that describes sampling techniques, clinical indications requiring sampling, and artifacts associated with endometrial specimens. Nonneoplastic chapters are divided into the normal endometrium, pregnancy, endometrial inflammation, functional disorders and dysfunctional bleeding, and iatrogenic disease. Of these, the latter is the most detailed, demonstrating the effects of hormonal and physical interferences of the endometrium. The last four chapters of the book discuss benign and malignant neoplastic conditions of the endometrium: benign tumors and tumor-like conditions, endometrial hyperplasia, malignant neoplasms, and gestational
J Am Coll Surg
trophoblastic disease. For difficult lesions, the authors emphasize not only the differential diagnosis, but also the route to the proper diagnosis. Clinical correlates of pathology are presented, which makes this book doubly useful. The authors do acknowledge that recent developments of unknown or unproven utility are not mentioned. The best parts of the book are the color pictures and accompanying legends. Assessment: Though not specifically billed for endometrial biopsies, this book may prove to be best used in this context. Overall, the succinct discussions, along with the numerous photomicrographs, present the core information necessary for signing out endometrial cases in a simple and accessible manner. It is a little unexpected that the chapter on functional disorders and dysfunctional bleeding, a common source of frustration for residents in training, is the shortest chapter, only five pages. Score: Numerical Weighted Score: 86 Reviewed by: Xiao Yun Wang, BS, MD (University of Kansas Medical Center)
Ratings are divided into five groups 97-100 90-96 69-89 47-68 below 46
Exceptional book with nearly flawless execution Outstanding book, with minor problems in execution Very good book, but usually with one or more fairly significant flaws Average book, ususally with several flaws (or one major flaw) or significant weakness versus its competition Substandard book
Doody Enterprises, Inc owns the copyright to all book and software reviews appearing MSSE. Full access to ACSM InfoSearch is a free benefit ACSM offers to all of its members, providing full acess to Doody’s comprehensive, proprietary database of information about inprint book and software titles and a weekly literature update customized to each member’s topical areas of interest. To register, members should go to http://www.doody.com/ s7.asp?dslid⫽1007.