Atlas of Clinical Endocrinology, Volume I: Thyroid Diseases: Edited by Martin I. Surks, MD, ISBN 0-632-04397-0, New York, Elsevier Science Inc., 1999, 201 pp.

Thyroid Diseases is Volume I of five volumes that comprise the Atlas of Clinical Endocrinology. The volume on thyroid diseases is edited by an outstanding clinical thyroidologist and scientist, Dr. Martin Surks. It contains 201 pages and an additional five pages of color plates with fifty-five color photographs of patients, pathologic specimens, and histology. The greatest strength of the Atlas is the twenty contributors who have transferred their knowledge and expertise into a very lucid, well organized atlas of tables and figures with descriptive texts to assist the health care professional in the diagnosis and management of thyroid diseases.