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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:404
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Review of recent books

Key Topics in Thoracic Surgery

Edited by A.G. Casson, MB, ChB, FRCSC, and M.R. Johnston, MD, FRCSC, Oxford, United Kingdom, BIOS Scientific Publishers, Ltd, 1999, 296 pp, illustrated, £22.95, ISBN: 185996155X

Nicholas J. Demos, MDa

a Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

This text in the ever-expanding field of general thoracic surgery consists of 80, small, easy-reading chapters designed as a " ... quick reference for senior medical students ... and other postgraduate trainees... ." Compare it for instance with the 2000 5th edition of the Shields text, General Thoracic Surgery, Fifth Edition (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) consisting of 2,500 pages, which "should be used when further detail is needed... ."

At the end of each three- to six-page chapter, suggested further reading and cross references to other chapters of the text are very helpful indeed.

The chapters on achalasia, adult respiratory . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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