Edited by Geoffrey Donnan, Bo Norrving, John Bamford, and Julien Bogousslavsky (Pp 450, £79.50). Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-19-263-157-8

• Donnan G
• Norrving B
• Bamford J
• Bogousslavsky J
• editors. Subcortical stroke (2nd ed)

This book is a must read for clinicians and researchers with an interest in stroke. The four editors are all specialist stroke clinicians who have been thinking about and leading research in subcortical stroke for many years, and they have put together a well constructed and comprehensive multiauthor work. This second edition is longer and more extensive than the first, reflecting the considerable and rapid advances in our understanding of …