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vol 2, by Charles Rouiller and Alex F. Muller, 522 pp, with illus, $33, New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1969.

Carl F. Anderson, MD, Reviewer
Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minn

JAMA. 1970;211(1):125.

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This book is the second in a proposed three-volume set dealing with selected topics concerning the kidney. Volume 2 contains seven separate monographs which include explants of the embryonic kidney, kidney and viruses, erythropoietin, experimental glomerular disease, pyelonephritis, toxic effects on the kidney, and kidney tumors. Mc-Cluskey and Vassalli's chapter on experimental glomerular disease is clear, thorough, and timely. Their description of immune complex diseases, antiglomerular basement membrane antibody diseases, and intravascular coagulation in experimental models with the possible relation to human disease is well-organized and comprehensible. Granoff's chapter concerning the kidney and viruses is stimulating, terse, and well referenced.

Both volumes 1 and 2 deserve a place in larger reference libraries. Anyone interested in the kidney and its functions would benefit from a review of Rouiller's chapter in volume 1 concerned with general anatomy and histology of the kidney and the chapter in volume 2 dealing with experimental glomerular . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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