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by L Jerome Krovetz, Ira H Gessner, and Gerold L Schiebler, 388 pp, 211 illus, $16.50, New York, Harper & Row Publishers, Inc, 1969.

Margaret H. Hanlon, MD, Reviewer
Chicago

JAMA. 1970;211(1):125.

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Pediatric cardiology becomes ever more complex, with the increasing complexity and number of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. There is need for a concise textbook of manageable size for those whose experience and study have not kept pace with progress in this field.

It is difficult to strike a balance between a digest and an encyclopedia; the authors justify their choice of a middle ground not only in their conventional preface but indirectly in an "annotated reference list," which gives a thumbnail description of ten leading texts and sets their own work in perspective.

As with many texts, this one began as a series of lectures, designed to "cover the field" of pediatric cardiology. Five years and many revisions later, it emerges as a slender book of less than 400 pages, quite likely to achieve its purpose as a basic introduction for medical students, general practitioners, and pediatric cardiologists.

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