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edited by Stephen J. Mathes, hand volumes edited by Vincent R. Hentz, illustrations by Kathy Hirsh and Scott Thorn Barrows, 2nd ed, includes access to http://www.saundersplasticsurgery.com, 8432 pp, with illus, $1400, ISBN 0-7216-8811-X, volumes also available for separate purchase, $199-$249 each, Philadelphia, Pa, Saunders Elsevier, 2006.

JAMA. 2006;296:2033.

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Plastic surgery is one of the few specialties that deals with patients of all ages and sexes and virtually every part of the body, from the head and neck to the distal lower extremity. Therefore, to produce a textbook covering the breadth of plastic surgery in sufficient depth to be useful to the practicing surgeon represents a Herculean task. The second edition of Plastic Surgery meets this challenge and provides an encyclopedic plastic surgery reference that should be a mandatory component of every plastic surgeon's library.

The current edition includes 219 chapters by more than 290 contributors, organized into eight volumes. The two "Hand and Upper Limb" volumes are edited by Vincent R. Hentz, MD, a renowned hand surgeon and former president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. The other six volumes are edited by Stephen J. Mathes, MD, one of the most accomplished plastic surgeons of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Matthew B. Klein, MD, Reviewer
University of Washington
Harborview Medical Center
Seattle
mbklein@u.washington.edu