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Edited by John P. Bilezikian, with Robert Marcus and Michael A. Levine. 859 pp., illustrated. New York, Raven Press, 1994. $165. ISBN 0-7817-0017-5.

No book has dealt comprehensively with the parathyroid glands since the 1948 classic by Fuller Albright and Edward C. Reifenstein, Jr., The Parathyroid Glands and Metabolic Bone Disease: Selected Studies (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins). In the past 20 years there has been an explosion of knowledge about the parathyroid glands, their secretory products, the effects of parathyroid disease, and the effects of other diseases on these glands. The Parathyroids is a timely and worthy successor to Albright and Reifenstein's classic.

The genesis of the book lies in tragedy rather than academic timeliness: the editors launched the project because of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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