The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Empty Sella Syndrome: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age [Paperback]

Icon Health Publications (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 8, 2003

This sourcebook has been created for patients who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it also tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to empty sella syndrome, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on empty sella syndrome. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Empty Sella Syndrome: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 3. Studies on Empty Sella Syndrome; Chapter 4. Books on Empty Sella Syndrome; Chapter 5. Multimedia on Empty Sella Syndrome; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Nutrition; Appendix B. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix C. Your Rights and Insurance; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME GLOSSARY; INDEX. Related topics include: Empty Sella Turcica, Empty-sella.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: ICON Health Publications (April 8, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059783525X
• ISBN-13: 978-0597835254
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,084,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Bother!, June 11, 2007

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C. Shearer "curious patient" (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Empty Sella Syndrome: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age (Paperback)

Don't waste your money on this. This product is an insult to the intelligence. I have empty sella, and so I ordered it, thinking "great, someone finally did a book." It's not a book, per se, but a pamphlet cribbed from a lot of very generalized sources that are also freely available on the web. If you can get access to INdex Medicus or PubMed, you can get more there. There is a load of "filler" in this, including pages on generalized health insurance, and "nutrition" without any specific references to empty sella. It looks like this is part of a series of pamphlets being marketed as books, and all contain the same general info, but they substitute phrases. The same sentences occur in the other pamphlets, like, "Be sure to discuss nutritional aspects of EMPTY SELLA with your primary caregiver" and all the obvious no-brainer advice that you get on many web sites. Only a cretin would be impressed with this "book."