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edited by M. Mumenthaler and H. Schliack, 416 pp, with illus, $95, New York, NY, Thieme Medical Publishers Inc, 1991.

Peter J. Dyck, MD, Reviewer
Rochester, Minn

Arch Neurol. 1991;48(9):898.

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This 400-page book, mostly on focal peripheral nerve lesions and their treatment, is the "revised translation (Sibylle A. Wallace, pediatric neurologist, Mount Sinai School of Medicine [New York, NY]) from the [fifth] German edition, published and copyrighted in 1987."

The book is logically organized with sequential sections on nerve embryology, anatomy, histopathology, classification of traumatic lesions, biomechanics, physiology, clinical examination, electrophysiologic examination, and operative treatment, and followed by specific sections on roots, plexus, and peripheral nerves. At least four major books on this subject are now in print, several written by orthopedists. In comparison with these other books, this one has approximately the same number of pages but contains more information. It is a scholarly work with extensive references. It has many line drawings, generally of reasonable quality. Because it is comprehensive, compact, well-referenced, and authoritative, it can be recommended with considerable enthusiasm.

The book has weaknesses too. Too frequently, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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