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Edited by Felicien M. Steichen and Roger Welter. 762 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Quality Medical, 1994. $130. ISBN 0-942219-51-1.

Few surgical disciplines have been untouched by the advent of minimally invasive therapy. In the five or six years since laparoscopic cholecystectomy was popularized, virtually every branch of surgery has tested the hypothesis that minimal-access surgery could have results comparable to those of open surgery, with less short-term morbidity. And if the number of new procedures has increased exponentially, so too has the number of publications about them.

This book is one of these new textbooks and deserves particular praise for its broad appeal and focus. It contains the proceedings of the Second International Congress on New Technology and Advanced . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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