Arthritis and allied conditions; a textbook of rheumatology, 15th ed., 2v.

RC933

2004-048815

0-7817-4671-X

Arthritis and allied conditions; a textbook of rheumatology, 15th ed.; 2v.

Title main entry. Ed. by William J. Koopman and Larry W. Moreland.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [c]2005

2807 p.

$359.00

**** A previous edition is cited as "initial purchase" by Brandon/Hill. Nine chapters are new to this edition, on cytokine inhibitors, potential biologic therapies, pain mechanisms and management, vasculitis classification, Wegener's and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis, polyarteritis nodosa and microscopic polyarterities, hypersensitivity vasculitis, Behcet's syndrome, and other vasculitis syndromes. From the last edition, 36 chapters have been re-written by new experts, and the remainder have been revised. Among the topics of the newly written chapters are structure of joints, proteoglycans, cytokines and their receptors, cytokine inhibitors, potential biologic therapies, and immunomodulatory agents. Both volumes contain a complete index; each chapter concludes with an extensive list of references. Both editors are with the U. of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, and the authors are specialists who teach and practice mainly in the US; a few are in Canada, Australia, and Europe.