The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 86:1113-1114 (2004)
© 2004 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.
Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach. 3rd ed.
Dempsey S. Springfield, MD1
1 Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, NY
Stanley Hoppenfeld and Piet deBoer. Illustrations by Hugh A. Thomas.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2003. 684 pages.
$199.00.
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Poor Piet deBoer! He and Stanley Hoppenfeld collaborated again for the
third edition of Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic
Approach. Since the first edition was published in 1984, this textbook
has become the reference for orthopaedic exposures, but it is
universally referred to only as "Hoppenfeld," as in, "Did
you review the exposure in Hoppenfeld?" Piet deBoer and illustrator Hugh
A. Thomas are all but forgotten.
The authors and illustrator have done it again. This third edition is
slightly larger, at 684 pages of text, than the second edition, which had 583
pages of text. The font . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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