Review for Journal of Laryngology & Otology
Title : Endoscopic Colour Atlas of Ear Diseases
Publisher : Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd
Authors; Khan M , Parab S.
ISBN: | 978-93-5025-166-9 |
PRICE: | $ 65 |
EDITION: | 1/e / 2011 |
PAGES: | 190 |
SIZE: | 8.5"×11" |
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COVERTYPE: | Hard Back |
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This is another relatively inexpensive textbook, showing that medical publication is no longer confined to Europe or North America. There are 163 pages, largely of colour photographs, with brief captions. Over 270 endoscopic images represent years of painstaking work and the result is a comprehensive review of every possible otoscopic appearance. The decades of experience must also be associated with improved technology in capturing such images and, inevitably, the illustrations do vary in quality. They have all be taken through the traditional 4 mm zero degree endoscope, but with a CCD camera, rather than a 35 mm or digital SLR camera. The former is ideally suited to video recording and operative monitoring. The latter is impractical for such preoperative imaging, as introduction disturbs the operator and compromises sterility. The superiority of the SLR, married up to a flash generator and endoscope, is here illustrated by the authors’ own picture on page 47. These show faultless colour and every vessel in sharp focus. Amongst the many foreign bodies illustrated, the pictures showing a menagerie of insects in the ear canal are unforgettable. There are numerous pictures of perforations, cholesteatoma and every possible disease process of the middle ear. Where some pictures are dark and indistinct, they do, perhaps, better reflect the view often offered by the examiner’s otoscope and its flat batteries. The best endoscopic images are a delight, but are unrealistic in clinical practice. This is a useful introduction to the art of otoscopy. ENT Dept
James Cook University Hospital GMC 2295226
