This new edition of Surgical Disorders is a great work. It is beautifully produced, elegantly written, and splendidly readable.
- The text is referenced to encyclopaedic standard, and richly enhanced by many new colour photographs, explanatory line diagrams, and clear summary tables, all of a universally high quality.
- Beginning with the fundamentals of the anatomy and function of the peripheral nervous system, and working its way through various types of injury, operative methods, the regeneration and recovery of nerves, surgical reconstruction, pain, and rehabilitation, this eloquently written work provides the reader with the solid understanding required to successfully perform surgery on the peripheral nervous system
- The continued follow up and analysis of the author’s experience of more than 6000 nerve injuries provides a more definite, indeed, decisive edge to proposals for treatment. Important new information is introduced, notably on compound nerve injury, birth injury of the plexus, and rehabilitation.
- It is strongly recommended to neurologists, orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons and plastic surgeons, in practice and in training with an interest in this difficult field, and also those physicians engaged in rehabilitation after severe neurological injury itself.
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About the Author
Rolfe Birch, M.Chir FRCP&S (Glas) FRCS (Edin) FRCS (Eng) by election, is a well known nerve repair specialist, and he teaches all levels of doctors in training. He is Professor in Neurological Orthopedic Surgery, University College London; Visiting Professor, Department of Academic Neurology, Imperial College London, and Honorary Orthopaedic Consultant, Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, London
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