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Edited by Timothy W. Evans and Christopher Haslett. 544 pp., illustrated. New York, Chapman and Hall, 1997. $153.95. ISBN 0-412-56910-8.

A wealth of epidemiologic, clinical, and basic research findings concerning or potentially relevant to the acute respiratory distress syndrome has emerged over the three decades since the original clinical description of the disorder. The editors of this book have taken on the daunting task of assembling a comprehensive overview of the syndrome and have touched on almost all the current clinical and research issues.

This multiauthored book has five parts. The introductory and overview chapters in the first part discuss the definitions, epidemiology, clinical spectrum, and pathology of the acute respiratory distress syndrome. Concise and clear, these chapters also provide . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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