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Eighth edition. Edited by A.H. Crenshaw. 3870 pp. in five volumes, illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby-Year Book, 1992. $450. ISBN 0-8016-1096-6.

Fifty-three years elapsed between the first and eighth editions of Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. The first edition of 1939 had one volume. The present edition has five. The book began as a classic and remains one today. Although it emanates from the Campbell Clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, and records the recommendations and experience of its staff, its editors have consistently tried to include other operative procedures. In this edition they have done so extensively, and all approaches are represented. In some earlier editions, outside experts were invited to contribute in areas in which the clinic staff had limited experience. This is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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