Kenneth Lyons Jones, editor. Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Elsevier Saunders, 2005:1-976. Price: dollar93.00.

摘要

The first edition, published in 1970, was written by David W. Smith, a renowned pediatric dysmorphologist who was one of literally the handful who developed this nascent field. In his 1970 book, Smith did much to move the field from the arcane to the practical. He grouped syndromes into various clinically pragmatic categories. Examples included chromosomal abnormalities, unusually short stature with associated defects, senile-like appearance, joint dysplasia, and syndromes with combinations of oral-facial-digital features. A total of 18 categories, plus "miscellaneous", were so stratified. Chosen syndromes were succinctly described: photographs showing the most characteristic (recognizable) features, a list of the three most common anomalies, a list of so-called occasional features, etiology, and natural history. All this in two pages! The book also provided normal growth charts as well as tables of normal measurements (ranges) for quantifiable traits.