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Previous Volume 334:277 January 25, 1996 Number 4

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Edited by Jose Biller, with Katherine D. Mathews and Betsy B. Love. 259 pp., illustrated. Boston, Butterworth–Heinemann, 1994. $69.95. ISBN 0-7506-9203-0.

This useful book, packed full of clinical information, is a timely update of earlier books on pediatric cerebrovascular disorders. The text is presented in a straightforward, easily readable fashion, with many well-designed tables, some clinical photographs, and many radiographs, almost all of them excellent. The references include both classic and current literature.

Probably the strongest chapter is the one on cerebral venous thrombosis. The only chapter that discusses cerebral vascular anatomy, it contains the best discussion of diagnostic procedures in the book, as well as a good review of the pros and cons of anticoagulant therapy. Other particularly good chapters . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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