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This volume deals with biliary, pancreatic, and splenic operations, the :abdominal vessels and nerves, abdominal trauma, intestinal obstruction, and peritonitis.
The text is completely up to date, as illustrated by detailed accounts of the most modern techniques of right hepatic lobectomy, pancreatectomy, porta-caval anastomosis, resection and graft replacement of the aorta, and endarterectomy.
As one would expect in a surgical text-book from the country of Mallet-Guy, the section on gall-bladder surgery is particularly good artd includes full details of operative cholangiography, althtmgh here illustrative radiographs might have been usefiilly included. Here and there one comes across procedures which appear strange to a reader in this country, for example hepatopexy, splenopexy, and implantation of the proximal stump of pancreas into a jejunal loop after resection of the tail.
References are given at the end of each chapter but British authors are --arely mentioned; an account of abdominal injuries without reference to Gordon-Taylor seems naked! These are, however, minor criticisms of a well-written, beautifully produced, and profusely illustrated book.
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