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Color Atlas of the Tongue in Clinical Diagnosis
by D. W. Beaven and S. E. Brooks, 256 pp, $41, ISBN 0815105878, St Louis, Mo, Mosby–Year Book, 1988.
Geralyn Sarti, MD, Reviewer
Henry Ford Medical Group Detroit, Mich
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(2):199.
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The examination of the tongue has been widely neglected in texts on physical diagnosis. Before reading this book, I reviewed three physical diagnosis texts. An average of five pages per book was devoted to examination of the tongue. Between the three texts, there were only two black-and-white photographs of the tongue.
The Color Atlas of the Tongue has more than 380 high-quality color photographs of common tongue conditions. The authors have geared their book to general practitioners, medical students, dentists, and nurses. They emphasize that the book is not meant to be a comprehensive text; their main goal is to concentrate on the appearance of the tongue surface in a wide range of conditions. Treatment of these conditions is generally not covered.
The book is divided into 19 chapters. The first
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