Article Text
Book review
Myotonic dystrophy, 3rd edition: major problems in neurology series, No 37
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By Peter S Harper (Pp 436, £55.00). Published by W B Saunders, London, 2001. ISBN 0 7020 2152 0
This is the third edition of Peter Harper's exemplary monograph, and it has been much awaited. Myotonic dystrophy transcends virtually all medical disciplines and few clinicians will not find something of value to their own practice. Every neurologist and geneticist with frequent involvement with such patients should have a personal copy, and for the rest there should be copies in departmental and postgraduate libraries. It has been written in a style that also makes it accessible to some patients and their families and I recently met …