PM O'Byrne and NC Thomson; eds. 829 pages. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 1995. $39.00. ISBN 0-7020-1781-7. Order phone 800-545-2522.
A comprehensive but compact practical text with a larger scope and more detail than its title implies: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria and procedures, functional assessment, pharmacologic and other treatments, management of various categories of asthma and specific categories of patients, and management of an asthma service. Many summary tables; well-documented and thoroughly indexed.
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