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Edited by Robert E. Henkin, with six others. 1724 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 1996. $275. ISBN 0-8016-7701-7.
Third edition. Edited by Martin P. Sandler, R. Edward Coleman, Frans J.T. Wackers, James A. Patton, Alexander Gottschalk, and Paul B. Hoffer. 1547 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1996. $279. ISBN 0-683-07503-9.

A number of comprehensive general textbooks of nuclear medicine have been published in the past few years. At least one and possibly two are slated for revision in the near future. The addition of the two textbooks reviewed here does not make the selection of a preferred work easier. Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine have about 150 contributors each, 20 of whom are common to both, and the writing reflects the fundamental strength of nuclear medicine in the various organ systems, which is the assessment of function rather than anatomy. The assessment of anatomy has by default largely been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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