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Summary: disappointment
Review: I am a medical student and this book was the textbook for the course. I have never had embryology before and thanks to this book, I never wish to have it again. I found this book extremely difficult to understand and full of errors. The pictures were ok but difficult to understand. I found that often times the text did not correlate with the picture. Many of my professors often referred to other books because they are much more beneficial. I suggest Moore's Embryology.
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Summary: disappointment
Review: I am a medical student and this book was the textbook for the course. I have never had embryology before and thanks to this book, I never wish to have it again. I found this book extremely difficult to understand and full of errors. The pictures were ok but difficult to understand. I found that often times the text did not correlate with the picture. Many of my professors often referred to other books because they are much more beneficial. I suggest Moore's Embryology.
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Summary: The best book of embryology
Review: I am professor of Histology and Embryology in Pernambuco/Brazil. Of all books of Embryology I know, this is the best of all.It covers the basic subject without forget the molecular explanations. Simply the best one.
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Summary: finally....
Review: I first bought Moore & Persaud's Embryology for the colorful pictures and the easy-to-read font but I soon realised that although the illustrations were good for those of us that depend on a pictorial memory, the text that accompanied it didn't completely explain some of the more complicated concepts and a few of the pictures are also apparently incorrect. I started falling back when everyone with Larsen seemed to love Embryo and I hated it 4 weeks into session. I then got myself a Larsen but soon realised that it too wasn't the book for me (although I know many that swear by it). Larsen, I found was very repetitive and I'd often find myself reading a near-identical paragraph two pages on from one I'd just read. I also found that Larsen tends to deviate from a topic through his paragraphs and talks about other things that would happen at that particular stage of development (which is good in some cases but gets annoying when you'd like to take one structure and follow it through from the beginning to the end without being confused by OTHER things that are happening at the same time) I then stumbled across Langman in the histology lab when I saw the lab assistant using it. Since I found myself once again confused with Embryo, I bought a Langman while on holiday in Sri Lanka for half the price and never looked back. Langman clearly compartmentalizes the topics and minimizes deviating onto other structures while describing the development one concerned unless it is directly relevant. I found it much clearer and easier to understand. Unlike the clutter of images that Larsen would leave in my head, Langman left a smooth chain of thought which was easy to recall. I also found that Langman's summaries at the end of each chapter (although not being as comprehensive as Larsen's) were still pretty good. It also had some information that was not in either Larsen or Moore. But above all, it takes the biscuit for its simple yet awesome three-dimensional CG diagrams, that are unbeatable for those of us who are poor at 3D visualization (ATARI over PS2 anyday!!). The diagrams are perfect for a comprehensive picture of the 7 pages of text that I'd have to sift through if I read Larsen. It also has really good clinical correlations and photographs of numerous congenital diseases and abnormalities. Overall, I'd reccomend this book as my first choice for an embryo text book. It took me nearly 3 sessions to find out the hard way; don't make the same mistake I did. Anyone wanna buy my Moore's? Cheers...
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Summary: finally....
Review: I first bought Moore & Persaud's Embryology for the colorful pictures and the easy-to-read font but I soon realised that although the illustrations were good for those of us that depend on a pictorial memory, the text that accompanied it didn't completely explain some of the more complicated concepts and a few of the pictures are also apparently incorrect. I started falling back when everyone with Larsen seemed to love Embryo and I hated it 4 weeks into session. I then got myself a Larsen but soon realised that it too wasn't the book for me (although I know many that swear by it). Larsen, I found was very repetitive and I'd often find myself reading a near-identical paragraph two pages on from one I'd just read. I also found that Larsen tends to deviate from a topic through his paragraphs and talks about other things that would happen at that particular stage of development (which is good in some cases but gets annoying when you'd like to take one structure and follow it through from the beginning to the end without being confused by OTHER things that are happening at the same time) I then stumbled across Langman in the histology lab when I saw the lab assistant using it. Since I found myself once again confused with Embryo, I bought a Langman while on holiday in Sri Lanka for half the price and never looked back. Langman clearly compartmentalizes the topics and minimizes deviating onto other structures while describing the development one concerned unless it is directly relevant. I found it much clearer and easier to understand. Unlike the clutter of images that Larsen would leave in my head, Langman left a smooth chain of thought which was easy to recall. I also found that Langman's summaries at the end of each chapter (although not being as comprehensive as Larsen's) were still pretty good. It also had some information that was not in either Larsen or Moore. But above all, it takes the biscuit for its simple yet awesome three-dimensional CG diagrams, that are unbeatable for those of us who are poor at 3D visualization (ATARI over PS2 anyday!!). The diagrams are perfect for a comprehensive picture of the 7 pages of text that I'd have to sift through if I read Larsen. It also has really good clinical correlations and photographs of numerous congenital diseases and abnormalities. Overall, I'd reccomend this book as my first choice for an embryo text book. It took me nearly 3 sessions to find out the hard way; don't make the same mistake I did. Anyone wanna buy my Moore's? Cheers...
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Summary: Comparative review of 3 embryology textbooks
Review: I needed to build an embryology reference library for my own writing purposes, and bought three books at once from Amazon.com: Sadler, Moore & Persaud (The Developing Human, ISBN 0-7216-6974-3), and Larsen (Essentials of Human Embryology, ISBN 0-443-07514-X). Of the three, I keep gravitating toward Sadler as the most useful. Although the other two are beneficial for more detailed accounts, Sadler gives the quickest and clearest grasp of the essential points. Sadler and Larsen write with more lucid prose and have a clearer conceptual flow than Moore & Persaud, but Sadler has the advantage of brevity for readers who do not need the minutiae. Sadler also outshines the other two books in the clarity and color schemes of the line art (although not in number of illustrations). The art and photography in this book make the complex 3-dimensional changes of embryology as easy to visualize as one could hope. I find the pink and yellow color scheme in much of Moore & Persaud's line art, and the pink cast of many of the fetal photographs, unappealing. Larsen is the only one of these books with a glossary. Sadler and Moore are the only ones with clinical case studies to test the reader's insight and problem-solving ability; both offer an appendix of solutions to the clinical problems. All three books have clinical application sidebars or chapter sections. The clinical applications in Moore are especially numerous, perhaps even to the point of distraction as they sometimes overshadow the main text. All three books have bibliographies for further reading on each chapter, with the larger Larsen and Moore books offering somewhat more references than Sadler. If one does not need to get very deeply into embryology but needs an efficient overview of essential points, I recommend the compact and handy Sadler book above the others. For more depth, but with comparably clear writing, I recommend Larsen. Moore and Persaud, in my impression, is the least clearly written and least well illustrated, but the richest in clinical content.
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Summary: Easy to follow Text.
Review: I used this in my first term medical embryology class. It was particularly helpful because it was extremely easy to follow while still conveying all the important information. The diagrams although not as numerous as the Moore are useful and relate directly to the text. A must have!!! You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Not recommended at all.
Review: I'm a first year medical student and our school (unfortunately) clumps embryology in with Gross Anatomy. I hated every second of the embryology portion because the book was disappointing. The professors did their best to explain things, but if there was an area that I didn't quite understand, the book was no help. It threw me into so much detail and had way too many errors. I would recommend a high-yield embryology book or some other review. Way way way way way too detailed for the time that we have. Not recommended. (...)
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Summary: Not recommended at all.
Review: I'm a first year medical student and our school (unfortunately) clumps embryology in with Gross Anatomy. I hated every second of the embryology portion because the book was disappointing. The professors did their best to explain things, but if there was an area that I didn't quite understand, the book was no help. It threw me into so much detail and had way too many errors. I would recommend a high-yield embryology book or some other review. Way way way way way too detailed for the time that we have. Not recommended. (...)
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Summary: simple and organized text, but still it has some errors
Review: i've found some errors when i opened embryology class. i hope this erratum has found to be helpful. p208-p458 p215 Fig. 11.7B conus cordia --> conus cordis p232 Fig. 11.22A lower portion of the blue arrow should be anteior to that of red one. p281 Fig. 13.14B arrow pointing duodenum should be moved little upward p283 2nd line left --> right p345 5th line from the bottom 42 weeks --> 4 1/2 weeks p351 Fig15.6 legend mesoderm --> mesenchyme p375 17th line from the bottom .. oral cavity but after its rupture the primitive nasal chambers open into the oral cavity by way .. p387 Fig. 16.5C outer hair cell --> outer phalangeal cell inner hair cell --> inner phalangeal cell p427 Fig.19.18A Abducens nerve --> Trochlear nerve p429 Fig.19.20B medial aperture --> median aperture p455 Box lowest line vasculature --> musculature Kyeong Han Park MD & PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, Seoul National University Medical College insitu@snu.ac.kr
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