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By James C. Rosser, Jr. CD-ROM Version M08.1.594 with pamphlet. System needed: Macintosh computer with a CD-ROM player (internal or external), with at least 8 MB of memory and 230-MB hard drive. St. Louis, Quality Medical, 1994. (Developed by Piedmont Systems.) $225 (single user).

In reviewing this CD-ROM devoted to laparoscopic hernia repair, we are actually evaluating how a new didactic tool deals with a newly developed therapeutic method. This CD-ROM designed by Dr. Rosser enables the user to listen to short lectures about various aspects of laparoscopic hernia repair while viewing relevant diagrams and short video clips. Parts of the interactive program ask the user to point out important anatomical landmarks on the video image of a living person on the screen, or to point to the correct location of laparoscopic trocars on a diagram of the abdomen. Other features, such as the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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