STAT!Ref is please to announce the new title, Danforth's Obstetrics and Gynecology © Wolters Kluwer Health / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins --- providing residents and practitioners complete and authoritative coverage of the clinical practice of obstetrics and gynecology.
Figure 2.6. Typical ferning pattern of dried amniotic fluid (400x).
KEY FEATURES -
- A core reference for residents and practitioners for over 40 years.
- Complete, authoritative coverage with a practical, clinical focus.
- Covers both obstetrics and gynecology topics at both the primary care level as well as the specialist level.
- References that allow reader to explore the critical articles.
DOODY'S REVIEW SCORE - This is a Doody's Core Title with a 5 STAR rating.
TENTH EDITION HIGHLIGHTS -
- New co-editor, Ingrid Nygaard, MD, a urogynecologist.
- New urogynecology section includes chapters on urinary and fecal incontinence and overactive bladder.
- New chapters on stillbirth and psychological disorders of pregnancy and the postpartum.
- New, modern two-color design.
- Problem cases.
- Boxed pearls and pitfalls.
- Key points at the beginning of each chapter.
- More algorithms, tables, and bulleted lists.
Who was Dr. David N. Danforth -
Dr. David N. Danforth, was the chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Evanston Hospital from 1947 to 1965 and at Northwestern Memorial Hospital from 1965 to 1972, and who was the sixth physician in six of his family`s generations.
A native of Evanston, Illinois, he received a master`s degree as well as a doctorate in physiology besides his medical degree from Northwestern University. He took his residency at the Sloane Hospital for Women (Columbia University) in New York from 1941 to 1944.
He served in World War II in the Pacific Theater, assigned to the 7th Amphibious Force, 7th Fleet.
As quoted by his wife after his passing in 1990, ``His work was the care of women and he was very compassionate toward them.”
