Ann Thorac Surg 2003;76:1342
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Review of recent books
Thoracic surgery, 2nd edition
Edited by F. Griffith Pearson, MD, Joel D. Cooper, MD, Jean Deslauriers, MD, Robert J. Ginsberg, MD, Clement Hiebert, MD, G. Alexander Patterson, MD, and Harold C. Urschel, MD, 2002, New York, Churchill Livingstone, Inc, 1520 pp, illustrated, $249.00, ISBN: 0-44307-5956
Mark K. Ferguson, MD, Reviewer
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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When the first edition of Thoracic Surgery was published in 1995, it quickly became a standard in the field. In the 8 years since then, much has changed in the landscape of general thoracic surgery. Video-assisted thoracic surgery is vital in the armamentarium of the thoracic surgeon, lung volume reduction is now an increasingly popular treatment for end-stage emphysema, positron emission tomography has come into common use as a diagnostic and staging tool, and interest in multimodality therapy for chest malignancies is increasing. The recently published second edition of this text encompasses all of these new topics.
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