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by Ernest J. Ferris et al, 229 pp, 138 illus, $16, Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1969.

John L. Doppman, MD, Reviewer
University of California San Diego

JAMA. 1970;213(8):1346-1347.

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Five radiologists from three large teaching institutions have collaborated in this book to bring us what Dr. Abrams refers to in his foreword as the Boston experience in inferior vena cavography. It is an extensive and well-studied experience. All the anomalies and diseases that involve the cava, from minor anatomic variations to major occlusions are welldescribed and illustrated. In addition, the major caval tributaries and their diseases are thoroughly explored in an outstanding chapter on selective venography of the caval branches. For the first time, there is available under single cover the entire spectrum of caval diseases and the pertinent bibliographic references.

In spite of multiple authorship, the standard of presentation throughout the book is uniformly high and surprisingly little overlap of subject matter occurs. The first chapter deals with the embryological development and anomalies of the cava, a notoriously complicated and difficult subject to handle in the text, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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