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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 78:478 (1996)
© 1996 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Book Review

MUSCLE DISORDERS IN CHILDHOOD. ED. 2. Victor Dubowitz. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1995. $95.00, 540 pp.

Frederic Shapiro, M.D.

This is the second edition of a single-author text designed to cover the spectrum of muscle disorders in children. The book is divided into fifteen chapters. In the first chapter, the many diagnostic approaches to and the classification of neuromuscular disorders are well reviewed. The longest and strongest chapter is, appropriately, that on the muscular dystrophies, which encompasses 100 pages. Other chapters deal with the congenital myopathies; the metabolic myopathies (there are three separate chapters devoted to glycogenoses; lipid and mitochondrial disorders; and ion-channel disorders, including periodic paralysis, myasthenia gravis, malignant hyperthermia, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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