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There are many difficulties when one is called upon to write about the subject of surgical approaches. First of all, the number of approaches that have been described cannot be measured. Even a cursory examination of the literature reveals that it is endless, branching out into the important surgical publications of this century and reaching back to the oldest medical articles. Naturally, there had to be a selection, and any selection inevitably implies omission.
Second, the issue of the proven value of an approach is rarely determinable. When most established "classic" approaches are critically examined, one may find among the works of an unknown author a previously unnoticed description with remarkable similarity. Similarly, it is common to find an even greater number of subsequent descriptions claiming originality, while their deviations from the classic method are so subtle that they escape all analyses except the most detailed ones. Nevertheless, in writing this book, I felt that it would be a disservice to exclude from the text the long-established famous approaches.
Third, it is unusual for a surgeon to perform an approach more than once or twice without adding a few of his own "touches". These embellishments may also come to us from our colleagues and teachers without particular comments, resulting in a tendency to criticize any description that does not include them: I apologize in advance for any omissions of this nature. [...] (from the introduction of the book)
Manufacturer
- Author
- Ronald McRae
- Publisher
- Iatrikes Ekdoseis P. CH. Paschalidis
- Type
- Medical - Treatments
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Number of Pages
- 179
- Publication Date
- 1998
- Dimensions
- 36x25 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780443029721
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