The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 81:1793 (1999)
© 1999 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
OPERATIVE SPINE SURGERY. Edited by William C. Welch, George B. Jacobs, and Roger P. Jackson. Stamford, Connecticut, Appleton and Lange, 1999. $150.00, 275 pp.
Drew Bednar, M.D.
Anyone who is familiar with the size and magnitude of most current tomes on spinal surgery will be pleased and intrigued with this volume, which arrives without benefit of a forklift.
The editors and their contributors have produced a wonderfully digestible "all-about" book aimed at primary-care physicians and junior orthopaedic trainees who are seeking basic knowledge about elective (non-fracture-related) spinal surgery. Because they make no pretense of presenting a "how-to" book, they accomplish this goal remarkably well. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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