This book is a collection of endoscopic photographs. The overall quality is reasonable but not up to the standard of other books and the detail is not what one would expect from real-time endoscopy images.
The collection is fairly comprehensive and is dealt with in a reasonably systematic fashion. There are a few radiological images for comparison, sometimes a photograph of a resected specimen but there is no histology. There is a small amount of text associated with each series of up to six photographs.
The book appears to be aimed at young doctors who are embarking upon endoscopy training and it is suggested that the atlas might be a reference book for them. The idea is that they could match the photographs against their own endoscopic findings. I am, however, very doubtful if this is a realistic proposition as, in practice, the doctor at an early stage of training in endoscopy would be supervised by an experienced endoscopist who would help with the interpretation of the findings.
I would anticipate that the value of the book would be a quick surveillance of the images in an informal setting by a doctor or nurse new to an endoscopy department. I cannot imagine it being helpful to anyone other than the very early novice. It is a fairly dull book and it could have been set out in a more entertaining manner with short clinical details followed by a quiz-style presentation. It is, however, merely a series of images and the opportunity has been missed to add a strong and important clinical correlation.
The book is set out reasonably well with up to six images per page in a format close to A4 size. I would regard the value of the book as being for browsing purposes in an endoscopy department rather than a reference tool.