TY - JOUR
AU1 - Aminoff, Michael J.
AB -  Myology, Basic and Clinical 3rd Edition edited by Andrew G. Engel and Clara Franzini‐Armstrong , 2 vols., 1960 pp., ill., New York , McGraw‐Hill , 2004, $395 Michael J. Aminoff MD, DSc. The publication of the new edition of this classic and encyclopedic text 10 years after the last edition has been eagerly anticipated, and readers will not be disappointed. The editors have assembled an outstanding list of almost 100 contributors who have provided a comprehensive account of the field of myology in some 70 chapters in this two‐volume work. The text is divided into three parts. Part 1 covers the development, differentiation, and diversity of muscle, muscle contraction, the control of muscle‐fiber activity, neuromuscular transmission, and muscle as a tissue. These basic aspects are followed by Part 2, dealing with general approaches to neuromuscular diseases. Part 3, which makes up Volume 2 in its entirety, focuses on the different diseases of muscle. The coverage is extensive and includes sections on the muscular dystrophies (12 chapters), altered cell‐membrane excitability (2), hereditary inclusion‐body myopathies (1), inflammatory myopathies (5), congenital myopathies (1), metabolic disorders (9), disturbances of neuromuscular transmission (3), and neural diseases (4). Readers will be pleased to find 
TI - Myology, Basic and Clincal, 3rd Edition, edited by Andrew G. Engel and Clara Franzini‐Armstrong, 2 vols., 1960 pp., ill., New York, McGraw‐Hill, 2004, $395
JF - Muscle and Nerve
DO - 10.1002/mus.20246
DA - 2005-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/myology-basic-and-clincal-3rd-edition-edited-by-andrew-g-engel-and-kFn4Dc6ahM
SP - 531
EP - 531
VL - 31
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -