Edited by Abdelaziz Y. Elzouki, Harb A. Harfi, and Hisham M. Nazer. 1800 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2001. $139. ISBN 0-7817-2804-5.
Textbook of Clinical Pediatrics, edited by three Saudi Arabianpediatricians, aims at a broad audience interested in the healthof children. More than 100 authors, many from Saudi Arabia,cover a wide spectrum of pediatric disorders. The book emphasizesclinical aspects of common and important pediatric diseases.Most of the book uses a standard approach and is accurate, wellbalanced, and comprehensive. Several innovative methods areused in some sections. One is the presentation of a representativecase to accompany the description of the pathogenesis, differentialdiagnosis, and treatment of a disease. In the chapters on organicand amino acid . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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