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Volume 336:1110-1111 April 10, 1997 Number 15
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Diagnosis in Color: Physical signs in general medicine

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Second edition. By Michael Zatouroff. 439 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1996. $65. ISBN 0-7234-2326-1.

This book is a collection of images, mainly color photographs but also x-ray films, magnetic resonance images, computed tomographic scans, biopsy slides, and even photographs of urine and stool samples. The book is divided into sections covering parts of the body as they might be encountered in meeting and examining a patient (i.e., the head, the hand, the neck, the chest, the abdomen, the leg, the foot, and the skin). The text that accompanies each image is succinct, informative, stimulating, and at times even entertaining. In the preface, the author explains his goal in combining images and text as follows:

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