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Edited by Michael Trede and David C. Carter. 655 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1993. $225. ISBN 0-443-04427-9.

Over the past few years, several textbooks on pancreatic surgery have been published; Trede and Carter have made a fine addition to this important area with their Surgery of the Pancreas. Preparing such a book is a formidable undertaking because of the many diseases of the pancreas, the new interventional and diagnostic techniques, the ongoing development of intraoperative diagnostic maneuvers, including fine-needle aspiration, and the controversies about the treatment of pancreatic cancer. This book, to its editors' credit, touches on many of these important areas. Almost all the topics are timely, some are controversial, and many are changing quickly and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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