Peter Fish.

Chichester:
$34.50,250 pages.

John

Wiley

& Sons,

1990,

This volume is an up-to-date overview of the tecfinology underlying diagnostic ultrasournd. It systematically reviews basic physics, instrumentation., quality
assurance, and biohazards. Older modalities, newer
technologies. The topics are profusely supplemented
with line drawings. The chapter on biohazards is
an excellent overview of the topic. idine appendices
briefly review a variety of other materials including
a mathematical review, definitions, and sample calculations. There is a brief reading list and a short but
useful index.
The material in this volume is presented using the
style found in freshman physics texts. The illustrations are all good-quality line drawings. There are no
ultrasonic images included in this volume. The book
is useful on radiologists. It will also be of value as a
textbook for student sonographers.
This is a useful book for ultrasound attendings
and fellows. It is also a good technical reference for
sonographers. It seems worthwhile to include an additional copy of this book in the departmental library
for general reference.
STEPHEIJ BALTER,

Ph.D.

The New York HospitalCornell University Medical College

New York. N.Y.

the Head and Net

1:Tke Larynx
William
Thieme
pages.

N. Hanafee and Paul H. Ward. New York:

Medical
Publishers,
1990,
$59.00,
81

This publication, entitled The Larynx represents the

debut issue in a planned series of monographs under
the broad umbrella, Clinical Correlations
In The
Head and Neck, edited by William Hanafee (Head
and Neck Radiologist) and Paul Ward (Head and Neck
Surgeon,) both from the University of California at
Los Angeles. It is an impressive beginning and bodes
well both for the concept as well as for its further
realization with later monographs to be authored by
others on The Salivary Glands, The hrasopharynx,
The Parapharayngeal
Space, The Temporal Bone,
Paranasal Sinuses and, finally Intervention Radiology and Imaging of The Head and Neck. This is an
ambitious project and one hopes that the substantial

promise of the plan will be fulfilled in its final execution.

The Hanafee-Ward
team has been in existence
for more than two decades and embodies an almost
idealized symbiotic relationship between imager and
surgeon. Their senior editorship of this series wiiI
represent the denouement
of that fortunate intellectual pairing, presenting the distillation of their combined professional experiences
and interaction.
It is the editors intent to present an ahways-incomplete, ever-evolving text, witb new monographs addressing specific
organ complexes,
each subject
discussed from the point of view of the then contemporary imaging strategies, pathology techniques, and
surgical and radiant energy treatments. As such, this
all embracing
editorial gamble predictably
will
leave each of the disciplines
somewhat dissatisfied
with the lack of depth in those individual areas of
specialization;
to have made this a truly corn
sive four-discipline
compendium,
bowever, worn
have likely made the project too difficult to complete
and probably too intolerable to read. M
first part would inevitably be out of dat
the last part had been completed. This editorial pragmatism is in perfect keeping with the real world
approach to clinical medicine that is embodied in
this short text.
Accepting the limitations of the format c
n bY
the editors, this first monograph on the la _I is a
useful book and it is enjoyable to study because of
the palpable enthusiasm
of its authors (in this instance, the series senior editors), Hanafee and Ward.
sides the obvious visual instructional
value as reto cross-sectional
imaging techniques
and reof anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the
larynx, the radiologist reader will delight in the accompanying
text as the authors drop dozens of
pearls, fashioning a kind of narrative necklace strilng
between well-thought-out
tables, figures, and images.
Those involved in clinical care will also appreciate
the discussions of various surgical options, radiation
treatments, complications,
aad other germane issues
regarding patient management for those with laryngeal disease.
Knowlegeable
readers will fin what they have
come to expect
of these two well-known
experts-useful
information, logical presentation,
cogent observation. Beginners in the field will find the
subject of the larynx, in health and dise
more manageable when they have fiini
this slim text.
R. THOMAS

BERGERQN,

The Long Island

Brooklyn, N.Y.

College

M.D.

Hospital,