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(Mastery of Surgery.) Edited by Jackson E. Fowler, Jr. 734 pp., illustrated. Boston, Little, Brown, 1992. $175. ISBN 0-316-29011-4.

This book is the first of a planned collection of subspecialty surgical works, the "Mastery of Surgery" series, edited by Nyhus and Baker. Volumes on plastic, orthopedic, and pediatric surgery are expected.

Each chapter of this book is written by a recognized master of urologic surgery. Unlike the authors of standard surgical textbooks, who strive to be objective, masters discuss their personal biases in performing urologic surgery. They offer the reader their philosophies of surgical techniques and operative complications and their opinions of alternative management strategies.

This "master plan" is mostly successful, and the result is part surgical textbook and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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