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by John M. Howard, MD, and Walter Hess, MD, 729 pp, $189, ISBN 0-306-46742-9, New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002.

Arch Surg. 2004;139:689.

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Authors John M. Howard, MD, and Walter Hess, MD, are 2 senior surgeons who have devoted their professional lives to the study of pancreatic diseases. Both with very interesting backgrounds (Dr Howard worked for Michael DeBakey, MD, at Baylor University [Waco, Tex], and Dr Hess trained with Rudolph Nissen, MD, at the University of Basel [Basel, Switzerland]), they have produced a comprehensive narrative of the history of the pancreas. The book is reasonably well illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of photographs of many important historical figures. There are 2 separate indexes: a subject index and an additional name index that provides invaluable assistance for the reader to locate the contributions of individual surgeons. A perusal of the name index identifies names not normally associated with pancreatic diseases. An example would be the contribution of Giovanni Morgagni, a pathologist best associated with congenital diaphragmatic hernia who is also credited with the first . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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