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B O O K R E V I E W S

Urologic Roen lgenalogy. By MARCY L. SUSSMAN, GEORGE JACOnSON and E. HOWARD JAYNE. Pp. 302, with ilhistra- tions. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1967. 817.

'Urologic Roentgenology' by Drs. Sussman, Jacobson and Jayne is a separate printing of Chapter VII1 of Ross Golden's 'Diagnostic Roentgenology', and was initially published in 1936. The considerable advances in the subject since then have necessitated a virtually rewritten text for this edition, and a replacement of most of the ilhistrations. Any text-book is bound by the inevitable time interval involved to be out of date at least in part before it gets to the reader. However, these three authors, working in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Arizona, have done well to present modern thoughts and trends in the radiology of the renal tract, despite their admission that references to the literature more recent than 1965 had to be omitted.

The book is orthodox in its contents and format. The illustrations are profuse and of good quality. The style is straightforward easy to read, and avoids the verbosity of some American writing. The reader is presented with a comprehensive and detailed account with supporting biblio- graphy of the radiology of the entire urinary tract both from the point of view of method and results. The topics covered inchide a discussion of tile merits and properties of the various contrast media available, the techniques of intravenous urography including infusion urography to- gether with nephrotomography, renal angiography by all routes, and the use and value of renal scans by isotopic techniques. In addition there is a full conventional descrip- tion of the anatomical, pathological and functional changes which may occur in the renal tract. Quality .varies a.Jittle fi'om section to section. For example a good section deals with the difficult problem of the significance of the radio- logical and renal scan findings in a suspected case of renal hypertension. However readers in this country will probably f ind the sections dealing with chronic pyelonephritis and obstructive uropathy not quite up to the standard of the rest of the book, and little is mentioned by way of renal 'philosophy', how to approach a renal problem, and how to analyse the facts available. Nevertheless this is a sound textbook and book of reference and should be widely accepted by trainee and experienced radiologist alike.

J. D. CRAVEN

Normal Radiological Anatomy. Radiological Optics and Film Interpretation. By HENRY TILLIER. Translated from the second French edition and edited by Ronan O'Rahilly. Pp. 382, with 375 illustrations. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1968. $12.50.

A radiographic image is, of course, very different from a simple photograph. Failure to appreciate this trite observa, tion often causes difficulty in understanding the shadows cast by complex structures. This work does much to clarify many puzzling morphological features that are so often seen in radiological practice.

Principles of radiological optics are clearly expounded and their application to the study of radiographic images are explained. Though all parts of the body are studied, the emphasis of this book is on the skeletal system.

The translator has succeeded in making the text clear and concise. Dr. O'Rahilly has spared no effort to make it understandable to the English-speaking reader. He even gives us a phonetic pronunciation of Dr. Tillier's name; perhaps modesty prevented his giving us one of his own name! Despite the excellent translation, the very nature of the material makes the work rather heavy going in places. One would regard the volume as a supplement to, rather than a replacement of, the standard works on radiological anatomy. I regard it as a very useful aide when one is confronted with a radiological image that one feels to be of no significance yet, nevertheless, is uncertain of its precise nature. PHILIP JACOBS

Thermoluminescent Dosimetry. By J. R. CAMERON, G. N. KENNEY and N. SUNTHARALINGHAM. University of Wisconsin Press Ltd., 1968. 71s. 3d.

As would be expected from these three authors, the originators of T.L.D., the subject is covered well at an elementary level.

Much of the work was carried out at the University of Wisconsin and published in their annual reports. More detail could have been included here; none of the topics is discussed comprehensively. Instead, the type is large and the margins are wide.

However, as an introduction to T.L.D., a good book to start with and for the researcher, an excellent bibliography.

C. A. JOSLIN