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by Michael Trede, MD, 224 pp, with illus, $125, ISBN 0-86577-845-0, New York, NY, Thieme, 1999.

Arch Surg. 2000;135:1368.

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This work from its outset refuses to be categorized as a surgical textbook or a volume of artwork. Instead, this text reviews more than 100 surgical cases (histories, sketches, and operative drawings) outlined and recorded by not only a technically gifted surgeon and innovator but also an exceptional medical illustrator, all in the same person. This text acknowledges Dr Trede's training at Cambridge in England and subsequently his development and stellar career in Berlin and Mannheim, Germany. Although the book chronicles the review of only one surgeon's career, the subject is a worthy choice. These one hundred patients cover the breadth of the European term "visceral surgery," long since replaced in the American surgical literature and training by terms gastrointestinal and general surgery. Trede classically illustrates operations through old world–like sketches, reviewing standard and novel approaches to difficult operative problems, demonstrating his expertise in almost every area of gastrointestinal surgery . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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