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By G.A. Ilizarov. 800 pp., illustrated. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1992. $298. ISBN 0-387-53534-9.

Ilizarov's Russian method of bone regeneration for limb lengthening and reconstruction has swept across the West and forever altered the face of orthopedic surgery. This formidable book is Ilizarov's magnus opus, the culmination of a lifetime's work for this venerable Russian surgeon, who died in July 1992 at the age of 71.

The near-legendary story of Ilizarov's life deserves retelling: he learned to read late (when he was 11), graduated from medical school in Crimea during World War II, with no formal postgraduate training, then found himself assigned as the only physician in the Siberian city of Kurgan. With no . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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