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Surgical Oncology

Trauma Management by Demetrios Demetriades, MD, PhD, and Juan A. Asencio, MD, 678 pp, with 364 figures and 46 tables, $45, ISBN 1-570579-641-7, 2000.
Surgical Arithmetic: Epidemiological, Statistical and Outcome-Based Approach to Surgical Practice by Lawrence Rosenberg, MD, PhD, Lawrence Joseph, PhD, and Alan Barkun, MD, MSc, 245 pp, with 375 figures and 40 tables, $45, ISBN 1-570579-672-7, 2000.
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Arch Surg. 2001;136:1082.

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Landes Bioscience Inc, Georgetown, Tex, has recently published 3 manuals. Trauma Management, edited by Demetriades and Asencio, is divided into 67 well-focused and pertinent chapters, with the able assistance of their University of Southern California colleagues. The tables are evidence based, the pictures are excellent, and the algorithms are functional and helpful. It is a useful primer for house officers and medical students and serves as a concise summary for more experienced surgeons in the total management of the trauma patient.

Surgical Arithmetic: Epidemiological, Statistical and Outcome-Based Approach to Surgical Practice is edited by Rosenberg, Joseph, and Barkun from McGill University. It includes an excellent background of epidemiological, statistical, and outcome-based information. It has a multidisciplinary focus and is uniquely applicable to clinical situations. They have divided this manuscript into 13 major sections from 12 contributors. Sections 1 through 6 are fundamental to data collection and interpretation. Sections 9 . . . [Full Text of this Article]