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Textbook of Prematurity: Antecedents, Treatment, and Outcome
edited by Frank Witter and Louis Keith, 406 pp, $85, ISBN 0-31694917-5, Boston, Mass, Little Brown & Co Inc, 1993.
John Sebas, MD, Reviewer
St Cloud, Minn
Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(4):313.
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Being a family physician who practices obstetrics, I jumped at the opportunity to review a book titled Textbook of Prematurity: Antecedents, Treatments, and Outcome. Knowing that 10% of live births are premature and that this cohort leads to a significant amount of neonatal morbidity and death, it is not hard to realize that "authoritative and clinically useful information on prematurity" is of paramount interest. Textbook of Prematurity promises the reader exactly this.
This 406-page book is divided into three sections: "Antecedents of Prematurity" (180 pages), "Preterm Delivery" (96 pages), and "Complications of Preterm Birth" (107 pages). In comparison, Williams Obstetrics (F. Cunningham, Appleton and Lange, East Norwalk, Conn, 1993) devotes only 19 pages to preterm pregnancies. The strength of Textbook of Prematurity is that it is highly comprehensive and referenced. Its weakness is that the conclusions are at times inconclusive, but this is attributed to the inherent weaknesses in many
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