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Second edition. By Louis R. Caplan. 562 pp., illustrated. Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1993. $90. ISBN 0-7506-9181-6.

Most treatises on stroke begin with a familiar refrain: stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States, affects about 500,000 patients each year, and costs over $10 billion annually. This is the stuff that multiple-choice examinations are made of, but it is so much less compelling than the image Caplan conjures up in his introductory chapter: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Yalta, each suffering from cerebrovascular disease, with Roosevelt to succumb in two months. What follows -- in 19 chapters organized into sections titled "General Principles," "Stroke Syndromes," and "Prevention, Complications, and Rehabilitation" -- is a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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