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A Colour Atlas of the Nail in Clinical Diagnosis
by D. W. Beaven, MD, and S. E. Brooks, MD, 240 pp, with illus, $151.18 (hardcover), ISBN 0-7234-0826-2 (paperback, ISBN 0-7234-1532-3), London, England, Wolfe Medical Publications Ltd, 1993.
Martin L. Kabongo, MD, PhD, Reviewer
Total Family Care Detroit, Mich
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(6):558-559.
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The Down and Under country, as New Zealand is sometimes affectionately known, has brought the world its kiwifruit, world-best cricket players, koala bears, and a few less-known marsupials, which have roamed the countryside since the Jurassic times. But today, Drs Beaven and Brooks bring the world of family physicians an unusually attractive and worldfirst color atlas of New Zealand, entirely devoted to the clinical description of the nails of humans who have primary nail disease or other clinical diseases manifested in nails and of healthy individuals without nail disease or other systemic diseases.
This book is particularly attractive to me not only because of my interests in the presentation of human nails in systemic diseases1 but also because it emphasizes and resurrects the dying art of clinical physical diagnosis in family practice settings where new, young graduate physicians and their patients are seduced and rely mainly on modern imaging
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