LITERATURE OF MEDICINE
Reviews and Notes: Surgery: Minor Surgery in Practice
1 August 1995 | Volume 123 Issue 3 | Page 240
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Minor Surgery in Practice
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VK Sodera. 356 pages. New York: Cambridge Univ Pr; 1994. $69.95. ISBN 0-521-44466-7. Order phone 800-221-4512.
A heavily illustrated guide to space and equipment needs, sterilization, preoperative preparation and postoperative care, precautions against hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus infections, use of anesthetics, steroid injection, aspiration, sclerosant injection, incisions, wound closure, cautery, curettage, cryotherapy, skin and subcutaneous biopsy, toenail surgery, minor gynecologic and urologic procedures, burns, infections, hematomas, foreign bodies, and epistaxis. Problems likely to be beyond the competence of a family physician or a general internist who does occasional minor surgery are specifically pointed out.
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