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Emergency Radiology of the Acutely Ill or Injured Child, 2nd edit. By L. E. Swischuk, pp. 622, 1986 (Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore), £72. ISBN 0–683–08049–0

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Dr Swischuk is obviously a very knowledgeable, hard-working, literal man, whose text provides exactly what the title and preface state: "bread and butter" radiology for the casualty officer or the doctor "on-take". The second edition has been enlarged from 496 to 622 pages by the addition of ultrasound and nuclear medicine. The discussions on trauma and infection in the chest, skeleton, abdomen, spine, and head and face are very good and, indeed, would be very applicable to much adult radiology. The emergency doctor who has mastered this text should have no imaging problems with his very acute patients.