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2.0 out of 5 stars
Very disappointing, May 6, 2005
This review is from: Pediatric Imaging: Case Review Series, 1e (Paperback)
This new addition to the Case Review series is the worst of the bunch. The diagnoses are well chosen, but unclear writing style and, much more significantly, poor editing combine to make this book far less valuable than it could have been.
In many cases, the images are so dark that they cannot be interpreted, even after the findings have been described. For some reason, the editors have chosen to make many of the images very small, so that a postage-stamp-sized image and a few sparsely worded questions appear in the corner of an otherwise blank, wasted page. Too-numerous grammatical and spelling errors combine to make the prose somewhat difficult to follow at times.
The authors have departed from the style of previous Case Review books by, in many cases, including questions that are unrelated to the diagnosis being presented. Presumably, this is meant to test the reader by eliminating the ability of the questions to suggest the proper diagnosis. However, the effect is to make the text even harder to follow and less informative, especially when the images are too small and dark to interpret. Often, the salient findings of an image are not discussed at all, and some cases are therefore rendered without any real educational value at all.
This book falls far short of the others in the Case Review series.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
worst of the series, May 23, 2005
This review is from: Pediatric Imaging: Case Review Series, 1e (Paperback)
This is without question the worst of the series. Typos, black pearls, text often doesn't refer to the pictures at all. Better than nothing...I suppose, but really substandard. I hope they didn't pay a real editor for this sloppy work.
Not worth waiting for.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
below average, May 31, 2006
This review is from: Pediatric Imaging: Case Review Series, 1e (Paperback)
The diagnoses are well chosen. Images are not perfect but in most cases good enough to see the pertinent findings. Everything goes downhill from here.
What was most troubling was that the book contains many factual innacuracies (confusing intra/extra lobar sequestration, creutzfeld-jacob virus as the causative factor in PML, I could go on and on. After doing half of the cases, I stopped believing much of what the authors had to say in the discussions.
Many typos which did not bother me. Annoying unrelated questions and long useless discussions. Poor differentials in most cases. Their differential for a JNA was every tumor under the sun that could happen in the nasopharynx of a teenage boy.
Having said all that, there are very few case related resources for the orals in pediatrics. I think that for $40, this book is still better than nothing. Each case often has more than one image so that at least you get a sense of what the disease looks like on different modalities.
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