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Edited by J. Willis Hurst and Douglas C. Morris. 514 pp., illustrated. Armonk, N.Y., Futura, 2001. $79. ISBN 0-87993-482-4.

Chest pain is a common presenting symptom in clinical practice, but is there a need for a new book devoted entirely to this subject? The answer is yes, with some qualifications. Chest Pain, a relatively short book, describes the multiple cardiac and noncardiac causes of chest pain. The book has 14 parts, each devoted to diseases or conditions that are related to a specific organ system or anatomical location and that can cause chest pain. The final part describes chest pain of "controversial origin." Not surprisingly, given the editors' specialty and the importance of the cardiac causes of chest pain, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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