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Second edition. Edited by Ronald G. Grainger and David J. Allison. 2443 pp., in three volumes, illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1992. $450. ISBN 0-443-04112-1.

Turn the clock backward 40 years, and think for a moment of the changes that have occurred in diagnostic imaging. In the fifth decade of the century, the field did not even include digital-subtraction angiography, diagnostic ultrasonography, computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), let alone coronary arteriography and angioplasty. It was possible to write a textbook of radiology and expect that virtually all subjects could be covered adequately in a single volume.

But then humanity's capacity for creative thought and innovative problem-solving produced a series of extraordinary breakthroughs. Techniques that we had not even dreamed of were designed, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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