Phagocytic mechanisms in helath and disease. Edited by R. C. Williams Jr, MD and H. H. Fudenberg, MD. New York and London, Intercontinental Medical Book Corporation, 1972, 205 pp

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 79 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.1780150615

✦ Synopsis

The proceedings of a two-day symposium on Phagocytic Mechanisms in Health and Disease (March 1971) consist of 12 presentations by preeminent workers in the field. T h e volume provides a good summary of the state of the art vis-A-vis basic studies of phagocytic mechanisms, and this information is applied to discussions of clinical states with impairment of phagocyte function. Rheumatism does not figure preeminently in the presentation, but Dr. Daniel M c C a r t y provides a nice succinct summary and overview of the topic of urate crystal phagocytosis and the effect of colchicine.