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Previous Volume 346:1503-1504 May 9, 2002 Number 19

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Edited by Eugene V. Ball and S. Louis Bridges, Jr. 601 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. $168.95. ISBN 0-19-263053-9.

Vasculitis is often a clinical conundrum. It is uncommon, many of its signs and symptoms are nonspecific, and it can mimic many other diseases. Some forms of vasculitis are innocuous, whereas others can lead to the rapid development of irreversible organ failure and sometimes death if they are not promptly diagnosed and treated. Moreover, the standard treatments for the life-threatening forms of vasculitis are not benign. Textbooks on the diagnosis and treatment of vasculitis are notably few, perhaps reflecting the complexity of the problem.

This book takes a systematic and quite comprehensive look at vasculitis from a somewhat unorthodox, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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