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This book is a compilation of common and uncommon surgical and ancillary techniques that we have found useful in the multiorgan transplantation pro- gram at the University of Minnesota.

Initially we asked Springer-Verlag why they thought the world needed another book about aesthetic surgery. Nevertheless, each of us was committed to the challenge of teaching residents aesthetic surgery during their residency, not afterward as was done in the past. Limiting the scope of Manual of Aesthetic Surgery has been an easier task.

With contributions by numerous experts

This manual presents the operations most often performed by surgeons at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic (Inglewood, California, 90301) in treating sports injuries.

This manual is intended as a comprehensive guide to the diagno sis and management of the burn patient.

The color photographs and illustrations appearing in select monographs over the past decade represent a significant advance in surgical commu nication. Since color photography recently has been used to demonstrate oper ative techniques, we climbed on the bandwagon and photographed in color many of the major operative procedures.

Of all the developing fields of surgery, few have had the impact of vascular surgery in affecting so large a segment of the population with its potential for relief of disability or the prolongation of life.

Illustrated by Bloodhart, T.

The Manual of Pulmonary Surgery has been designed primarily as a guide to the techniques of surgery on the lungs of adults and older children. The information included and the technical points stressed are those in which, in more than 20 years of teaching thoracic surgery, I have found residents to most commonly need instruction.

The first hospital-affiliated surgical unit designed specifically for ambulatory surgery in the state of California began functioning as part of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in 1973.

The management of soft-tissue neoplasms has always had an aura of mystique due to the relative rarity of these lesions in comparison to the more common cancers occurring in man.

This manual presents the operations most often performed by surgeons at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic (Inglewood, California, 90301) in treating sports injuries.

Illustrated by Bloodhart, Ted

Critical comments by the authors concerning certain technical pro cedures may be due to personal bias and certainly do not imply that the alternative methods are undesirable.