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Book review

A Textbook of Radiology. Edited by David Sutton, 2nd edn, pp. xiii + 1,376, 1975 (Edinburgh, London and New York, Churchill Livingstone), £25.

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There are those who believe that a single-volume textbook has no place in a wide-ranging subject such as radiology. Certainly there are problems; every section is inevitably compressed, and it is not easy to give an adequate picture of individual disease processes. There are also difficult decisions on which conditions or procedures to mention, particularly when the aim is, as the author's foreword indicates, to be both comprehensive and concise. Yet the success of the first edition of this book shows that Dr. Sutton was right in his belief that there was a need for such a work, and after being out of print for two years the second edition has already enjoyed a wide scale.