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Plastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery, 2nd ed
by John Bostwick III, 1606 pp, with 1800 illus, $375, ISBN 1-57626-104-2, St Louis, Mo, Quality Medical Publishing, 2000.
Arch Surg. 2000;135:1367.
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When the first edition of this text was published almost 10 years ago, it quickly became the authoritative text in the field. Dr Bostwick, one of the most respected plastic surgeons in the field of breast surgery, provided us with a single-authored text that gave a beautifully presented, easy-to-read, comprehensive look at the anatomy, aesthetics, and surgical techniques involved in cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery. Topics reviewed included breast augmentation, mastopexy, breast reduction, and postoncologic breast reconstruction. The second edition of this text has taken all of these qualities and built on this work, updating it while maintaining the high editorial and production values of the first edition.
While several of his colleagues have made contributions to the second edition, it remains essentially the work of a single author—a personal approach that avoids repetition and allows for a clarity of vision impossible in a multiauthored text. Dr Bostwick's depth of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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