L.A. Loevner. Mosby Elsevier; 2008, 288 pages, $49.95. Case-based review books are increasingly popular, explained by the recognized need to continually quiz oneself for Board Certification/Certificate of Added Qualifications/ Maintenance of Certification and because these books tend to be more
J.R. Haaga, V.S. Dogra, M. Forsting, R.C. Gilkeson, H.K. Ha, and M. Sundaram, eds. Mosby Elsevier; 2008, 2904 pages, $359.00. Another multiauthored 2-volume 2904-page book is available to those who want a text that encompasses the major facets of diagnostic
Y. Yonekawa, T. Tsukahara, A. Valavanis, and N. Khan, eds. Springer Wien; 2008, 141 pages, $219.00. The publication titled Changing Aspects in Stroke Surgery: Aneurysms, Dissections, Moyamoya Angiopathy and EC-IC Bypass is an outline of the proceedings of the Third
T. Kiriş and J.H. Zhang, eds. Springer Wien; 2008, 450 pages, $289.00. Cerebral vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is one of the most difficult problems encountered by the clinicians who take care of these critically ill patients. The etiology
G.M. Hathout, Cambridge University Press; 2009, 324 pages, $125.00. Among the plethora of case review publications, Clinical Neuroradiology: A Case-Based Approach stands out in concept, content, and educational value. Too often “case reviews” are superficial, supply just the minimum of
C.L. Vaughn. Imperial College Press; 2008, 324 pages, $50.37. In our professional readings, it is valuable on occasion to step back from the standard journal articles and textbooks and take a look at the pioneers in medicine and physics to
S.W. Atlas, ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008, 2000 pages, 6800 illustrations, $429.00. In a major and impressive expansion of his classic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine, Dr. Scott Atlas, in this fourth edition, has presented the
T.P. Naidich, H.M. Duvernoy, B.N. Delman, et al, eds. Springer; 2009, 876 pages, 1000 illustrations, $439.00. In a truly remarkable anatomic and MR imaging atlas of the human brain stem and cerebellum, Drs. Thomas Naidich, Henri Duvernoy, Bradley Delman, Gregory
J.D. Swartz and L.A. Loevner, eds. Thieme Medical Publishers; 2009, 616 pages, 1506 illustrations, $169.95. In his fourth edition of Temporal Bone Imaging, Joel Swartz, now with Laurie Loevner as coeditor, has added considerably to the prior edition published in
F. Hyder, ed. Humana Press; 2009, 366 pages, 107 illustrations, $99.00. The latest addition to a long list of publications in the Methods in Molecular Biology series is entitled Dynamic Brain Imaging: Multi-Modal Methods and In Vivo Applications. This title
