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By Donlin M. Long and Paul C. McAfee. 431 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1992. $175. ISBN 0-683-05149-0.

In the past several years, there has been a great deal of interest among surgeons in the spine and in new operative techniques for dealing with diseases of the spinal cord and vertebral column. We have also seen the emergence of spinal surgery as a separate discipline and the blurring of traditional lines of responsibility between neurologic and orthopedic spinal surgeons. Thus, many contemporary neurosurgeons address problems of instability, and orthopedic surgeons frequently operate to perform neural decompression. Increasingly, spinal surgery entails a team approach, with contributions from both specialties. Because of this convergence of interests, textbooks of spinal surgery . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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