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by Anthony P. C. Yim, MD, Stephen R. Zahelrigg, MD, Mohammad Bashar Izzat, MD, Rodney J. Landreneau, MD, Michael J. Mack, MD, and Keith S. Nauheim, MD, 720 pp, 605 illus, $295, ISBN 0-7216-7723-1, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders, 2000.

Arch Surg. 2000;135:987-988.

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If the surgical advances of the last decade were to be characterized in a single phrase, it would be the ineluctable movement toward minimal access surgery. Beginning in 1910 with Jacobaeus' work with pleural space problems and tuberculosis and progressing with the development of fiberoptic light sources and imaging successively through gynecologic surgery with tubal ligation, general surgery with cholecystectomy, and orthopedic surgery with arthroscopy, this movement has reached full flower as new technologies are brought to bear on cardiothoracic surgery. The technology associated with this movement is moving so quickly that one might question whether a full-blown text in this area would be yesterday's news by the time it actually became available. As will become evident in this review, however, I found much in Minimal Access Cardiothoracic Surgery, recently published by WB Saunders, which will be worthy of interest for some time to come. The editors of this . . . [Full Text of this Article]