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This book consists of two sections: a pediatric temporal bone imaging atlas, followed by case reports on a variety of typical pediatric ear diseases. As an atlas, this book shows complete contiguous temporal bone CT sections of an infant and of an older child, listing detailed anatomic names of the structures, including very fine ones, that appear in each image. In addition, developmental changes in the size, shape, location and orientation of the primary components of the temporal bone are also shown to demonstrate how the temporal bone grows with age. This book will be of great help to those who are interested in pediatric ear diseases, since accurate assessment of the disorders is very difficult without this sort of atlas, which has not been published so far.

The section following the atlas contains a collection of case reports. In this section, case images are shown alongside normal reference images of a child in the same age range as the patient, allowing readers to identify the key findings for diagnosing the disorder without needing to refer to an atlas of normal images. Images taken before and after treatment are also displayed side by side, to clearly illustrate the point of the post-treatment follow-up. Such layout is unique to this book, and is very effective for learning image diagnosis. To obtain a complete perspective of a disease, it is necessary to know not only the steps leading up to its diagnosis but also the treatment and the results following it. This is why I made the latter half of this book a collection of case reports, not simply a display of the diseases’ key images.

I hope that this book will be of use to those who are involved in the medical care of children suffering from ear diseases.

Yasushi Naito

Kobe, Japan, 2013