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In the 86 years since Roentgen discovered the x-ray, radiology has come a long way—an extraordinarily long way as this three-volume work illustrates. The revolution in diagnosis by radioisotopes, ultrasound, and computed tomography is just a part of it. We no longer have to tell the patient with a retained common bileduct stone that another operation is needed: radiologists can retrieve it. Similarly, new techniques have permitted the biopsy of discrete lesions in the lung, mediastinum, and pancreas, the drainage of entrapped bile, and even the dilation of occluded coronary arteries.Drs Teplick and Haskin have established an excellent track record in a similar book, now in its third edition, the radiological companion to BeesonMcDermott's Textbook of Medicine. Now they have designed Surgical Radiology to accompany Sabiston's (Davis-Christopher) Textbook of Surgery.At first glance the surgeon-reader may feel offended that Surgical Radiology, in its infancy, is fatter than its older |
