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Previous Volume 338:1393-1394 May 7, 1998 Number 19

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By Adam Greenspan and Wolfgang Remagen. 435 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott-Raven, 1998. $225. ISBN 0-397-51710-6.

Orthopedic surgeons who care for patients with bone tumors have seen a vast improvement in clinical outcomes in the past several years. Much of this progress can be ascribed to the multidisciplinary attack orthopedic surgeons have mounted with the help of pathologists, radiologists, medical oncologists, and radiation therapists, as well as to the surgeons' own developments in limb-sparing surgery.

The first paragraph of the first chapter of this splendid book encapsulates the modernist's approach to bone tumors by stressing the multidisciplinary approach as well as the three major caveats in treating bone tumors: "(a) do not overtreat a benign bone . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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