FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 330:1096-1097 April 14, 1994 Number 15 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited

Edited by David M. Gershenson, Alan H. Decherney, and Stephen L. Curry. 664 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1993. $99. ISBN 0-7216-3558-X.

Operative Gynecology contains 33 chapters by 48 authors, all but 2 of whom are from the United States. It is organized along traditional lines with an anatomically based approach to both benign and malignant gynecologic conditions and includes a useful chapter on breast disease. Each chapter approaches management in a logical fashion. Although the book understandably emphasizes surgical approaches, nonsurgical therapeutic options are not ignored. An enjoyable and refreshing chapter on surgical history stresses our heritage and pays homage to those who laid the cornerstones for our own work. The chapter on anatomy, like the anatomical descriptions in the other . . . [Full Text of this Article]

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.