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edited by Jeffrey L. Ponsky, MD, 304 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-316-98927-4, Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott-Raven, 1997.

Arch Surg. 1998;133:464.

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With the rapid acceptance of some aspects of endoscopic surgery, this "concentrated effort to compile these problems and elaborate in detail on their management" is timely. The sporadic nature of complications makes the approach of a multiauthored text a logical one. Contributors should be expected to have enough surgical volume to speak with some experience; thus, to be invited to contribute to a book on this subject is a backhanded compliment. Of course, any surgeon can plead, "I don't have complications, it's the patient who has them!"

The book is in 3 sections, covering flexible endoscopy, laparoscopy, and the subspecialties of thoracoscopy, urology, and gynecology. This grouping of the trunk-based specialties avoids overlap with orthopedics, plastics, and otorhinolaryngology, although there must be something that can be learned from endoscopic complications in these disciplines. The contributions from the more mature specialties (flexible endoscopy, gynecologic laparoscopy) are more rounded and informative than . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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