Friday, February 25, 2011

Featured Book - Breast Surgery


The featured book from the current New Acquisitions List is Breast Surgery edited by Dr. Kirby Bland and Dr. V. Suzanne Klimberg, Director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Breast Cancer Program, UAMS.

As the first volume of the Master Techniques in General Surgery series, Breast Surgery is written by acknowledged master surgeons, emphasizes surgical procedures, and is lavishly illustrated with original full-color drawings. The contributors fully explain their preferred techniques in step-by-step, thoroughly illustrated detail, assess indications and contraindications, offer guidelines on preoperative planning, and discuss outcomes, complications, and follow-up.

Coverage includes breast biopsy; lymph node mapping and dissection; partial mastectomy; mastectomy; extensive resections; breast reconstruction; and a significant oncoplastics section. Each chapter in each section focuses on one procedure.
- Barnes and Noble

WP 910 B740 2011
Breast Surgery/Kirby Bland and V. Suzanne Klimberg
Philadelphia:Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins; 2011