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Kendig’s disorders of the respiratory tract in children, 7th edition
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Edited by V Chernick, T F Boat, R W Wilmott, A Bush. Published by Elsevier Saunders, 2006, £183 (hardback), pp 1136. ISBN 13 978-0-7216-3695-5

In the preface to this 7th edition, the four editors describe Kendig’s disorders of the respiratory tract in children as the bible of paediatric pulmonology. Edwin L Kendig, Jr was a pioneering paediatric pulmonologist in Virginia and the first editor of this textbook. This edition is dedicated to his memory. It represents a major revision since the 6th edition in 1998 with over 120 authors contributing to 74 chapters over almost 1000 pages. The structure of the book is good. It starts …