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Edited by Clayton A. Peimer. 2468 pp. in two volumes, illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1996. $295. ISBN 0-07-04938-8.

The field of hand surgery is rich with multivolume textbooks of encyclopedic proportions, and Clayton Peimer presents us with yet another, purported to be "the single largest source for information about the hand and entire upper extremity." Records aside, for a multiauthored book with more than 190 contributors from 14 countries there is a remarkable consistency of style and organization, a tribute to the editing or the disciplinary skills of the editor. The contributors come from all of the multiple disciplines involved in the comprehensive care of the upper extremity, including such nonsurgical specialties as physiotherapy, rheumatology, psychiatry, dermatology, genetics, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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