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Previous Volume 335:1249 October 17, 1996 Number 16

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Edited by Raj K. Narayan, James E. Wilberger, Jr., and John T. Povlishock. 1558 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1996. $225. ISBN 0-07-045662-3.

With the cutting precision we expect of neurosurgeons and anatomists, the editors have dissected the topic of central nervous system trauma into 111 sections written by thoughtful and experienced clinicians and researchers. Their book is divided into 72 chapters and 1000 pages on a wide range of facets of traumatic brain injury, 24 chapters and 300 pages on spinal cord injury, and 15 chapters and 200 pages on models of brain and spinal injury, basic mechanisms of the cell-injury cascade, and experimental interventions. Readers will learn or have a chance to reconsider the pathophysiology of neurotrauma care, the imaging, diagnostic, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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