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Handbook of Reoperative General Surgery
by Mark P. Callery, MD, 234 pp, with illus, $44.95, ISBN 1-4051-0473-2, Malden, Mass, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
E. Christopher Ellison, MD, Reviewer
Arch Surg. 2007;142(2):198.
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During residency training or practice, the surgeon is challenged by patients requiring reoperation. These patients have surgical conditions made extremely complex by anatomy altered by previous surgery. Successful treatment requires not only superior operative skill but also, as stated in the forward by Josef E. Fischer, MD, "a system of dealing with complex operative surgery" that should be experiential based and include a thorough knowledge of the underlying anatomy and pathophysiology. This multiauthored text provides the surgeon with evidence-based fundamentals and personal insights into the care and treatment of patients requiring secondary surgical procedures.
In the foreword, Fischer lays out in precise fashion the essential characteristics of successful reoperative surgery, including the following: knowledge of the anatomy, adequate exposure, meticulous technique, and time. Imperative to the best outcome is the surgeon scheduling the procedure for an appropriate amount of time, as Fischer notes, "One cannot . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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