Vascular diseases are any abnormal conditions that affect the circulatory system and are responsible for more mortality and morbidity than any other category of human disease. The spectrum of pathology encompasses congenital and acquired disorders that are arterial, venous, capillary or lymphatic in origin. Vascular disease can affect virtually any vessel in the body and present with different ...

chapter, particularly in the beginning, assumes a degree of mathematical competence on the part of the reader such that all but the most physically inclined microscopists will be put off. Despite the inate sophistication of most of the topics covered, however, the tone of the contributions is uniformly terse and superficial, thus rendering this volume too pedestrian for specialists. Further, al...

'fHIS well known and excellent textbook on Peripheral Vascular Diseases has now reached its 4th Edition. The text has been largely rewritten and brought up to date with a number of new chapters. In a specialised field of medical science which has developed rapidly in recent years the contents crystallise the views of the many experts from the Mayo Clinicphysiologists, pathologists, physicians a...

Vascular diseases are any abnormal conditions that affect the circulatory system and are responsible for more mortality and morbidity than any other category of human disease. The spectrum of pathology encompasses congenital and acquired disorders that are arterial, venous, capillary or lymphatic in origin. Vascular disease can affect virtually any vessel in the body and present with different ...

Ttiis is a useful book, in which the place of cortisone and other steroid drugs in the treatment of the rheumatic diseases is reviewed. The book falls naturally into two parts. The first section conisists of five chapters, and is concerned with the use of cortisone in rheumatoid arthritis. The second section consists of two chapters, the first of which decribes the general use of cortisone in d...