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✦ LIBER ✦
Paravertebral Block in Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy. Minor Sympathetic Surgery. By FELIX MANDL, M.D., F.I.C.S., Professor of Surgery, Hodassah University Hospital, Jerusalem. Translated by Gertrude Kallner, M.D. With a Foreword by Max Thorek, M.D., F.I.C.S., Chicago. 61/8 × 9 in. Pp. 330 + xvii, with 20 illustrations. 1948. London : William Heinemann (Medical Books) Ltd. 32s. net.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1949
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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✦ Synopsis
Price not stated. THIS monograph of 257 pages, written in Spanish, describes in detail all the recognized methods of free transplantation of skin. The earlier chapters are devoted to cross-grafting (homo-and hetero-grafts) ; the histological changes and the phases in the establishment of nutritional supply in grafted skin ; the classification of grafts according to thickness, from the thin Ollier-Thiersch dermo-epidermic graft to the full-thickness Wolfe-Icrause graft. Instructive photomicrographs are well reproduced and there are useful diagrams indicating the constituents of grafts of differing thickness.
Reasons are advanced for selecting one tyFe of graft in preference to another in the treatment of a particular condition, and pre-and post-operative care are given the important consideration they deserve. In the section dealing with choice of donor area reference is made to the use: of full-thickness skin from the supraclavicular region as recommended by Brown and Cannon.
A well-illustrated chapter describes all the mechanical aids to skin-graft cutting. The frequent appearance of drawings of the Humby knife in use suggests that this excellent instrument is as popular with the author as it is with many plastic surgeons in this country. There is nothing new in the chapter on methods of fixation for grafts and dressings. The repair processes which occur in the donor area are described in considerable detail and are illustrated by numerous photomicrographs.
Photographic case records, showing most gratifying results, come from the service of Dr. Malbec.
Twelve pages are devoted to the bibliography : this and the index of authors should prove extremely useful to those wishing to follow the literature of the subject. There is a good general index.
The author is to be congratulated on the production of a thoughtful and scientific thesis which will be of particular value to those who read Spanish : even to those who cannot read the text, its illustrations, diagrams, and bibliography will be of considerable interest.
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