Recent advances in ultrasound diagnosis. Asim Kurjak, Editor, International Congress Seres, Excerpta Medica, P.O. Box 1126, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, $52.25 (American dollars 329 pages
✍ Scribed by Joseph H. Holmes
- Book ID
- 102327396
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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✦ Synopsis
This book presents the proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Ultrasound Diagnosis held at Dubrovnik, 10-15 October 1977. The major sections covered in the book include new technical developments, new clinical applications, gynecology, obstetrics, neurology, cardiology, breast, and pancreas. Dr. Donald leads off with a presentation of the scope and limitations of newer ultrasonic techniques. There is a predominance of authors from Europe and Japan with a sprinkling of authors from Australia and the United States: Most of the papers are quite well done. Most illustrations are fairly good and reproduced'well, especially the scans. However, some of the diagrams do not have the same clarity of reproduction.
Like all books which are a compilation of papers presented at a symposium, some articles are excellent and some are not of the same caliber. Indexing is limited which makes it hard for the individual interested in only one subject area to find all of the material on that subject. It is very important in a compilation of this type to have good indexing since most readers are not interested in all aspects of ultrasound. The fact that the articles are grouped in sections, as previously noted, is of some help. The other problem with a collection of papers from a meeting is that the material may not represent the current state of the art. However, in this case publication date was July 6,1978, and the meeting date was October, 1977. The book is particularly recommended for those who want a better idea of what is being done around the world and in determining how various investigators around the world have approached the problem of improving the techniques and equipment used in diagnostic ultrasound.