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Book reviews

Diagnostic Imaging in Neurological Disease. By Ivan Moseley, pp. x + 283, 1986 (Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh), £55.00. ISBN 0–443–03619–5

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The introduction and increasing availability of new noninvasive methods of imaging has exacerbated the inappropriate use of diagnostic tests. The investigation of patients with neurological disease is no exception. The prospective reader should know that this is not yet another textbook of neuroradiology (spare the thought) but a book about the appropriate and economic use of diagnostic imaging for the investigation of patients with neurological problems. The author's aim is to indicate to all those who see such patients, not what tests can be done and what they show, but what ought to be done.

In an introductory chapter in which the factors which should govern the choice of imaging are considered, such the information required and the effect on management, pride of place is given to the wishes of the patient, an interesting and refreshing approach.