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Volume 329:367-368 July 29, 1993 Number 5
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Knee Surgery: Current Practice

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Edited by Paul M. Aichroth and W. Dilworth Cannon, Jr. 802 pp., illustrated. New York, Martin Dunitz/Raven Press, 1992. $250. ISBN 0-88167-934-8.

Knee surgery has evolved over the past decade into a major part of orthopedic surgical practice. Currently, the definitive postgraduate textbook is that by John Insall (Surgery of the Knee. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1984), which has not since been revised since 1984 and therefore has fallen a little out of date, particularly the sections on arthroscopic surgery and ligament reconstruction. The authors of Knee Surgery have made an effort to fill the need for an updated postgraduate knee-surgery textbook, with particular emphasis on rapidly changing areas. The book has 21 major sections comprising 96 chapters, contains 788 pages of . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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