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Edited by Allen J. Dozor. 296 pp., illustrated. Armonk, N.Y., Futura, 2001. $88. ISBN 0-87993-464-6.

There are at least four large, comprehensive textbooks on lung disease in children. Primary Pediatric Pulmonology is more a handbook of pediatric lung disease and focuses on evaluation and treatment of common disorders. Thus, the book is unique in concept, but does it achieve its goal?

The 14 chapters are by experts in the field. The first chapter, on the evaluation of chronic or recurrent respiratory symptoms in children, contains numerous practical points. Next comes a chapter on noisy breathing and stridor in infants, which contains fewer key points and is vague on the time required for spontaneous resolution of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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