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As its title implies, this book covers foot and ankle surgery. It follows a fairly traditional format for this type of book, initially covering foot and ankle anatomy, biomechanics, physical examination, and imaging, before proceeding through a fairly comprehensive range of foot and ankle disorders or conditions creating disorders in the foot and ankle, and their (primarily) surgical management, although nonsurgical management is also addressed for some." Logically laid out, the book starts with surgical anatomy, biomechanics, etc., and moves on to cover a fairly comprehensive range of foot and ankle disorders from a primarily surgical perspective over 25 chapters. Diagrams are excellent and references are pertinent. Most of the contributors are orthopedic surgeons. There is a chapter on toenail surgery written by podiatric surgeons, which is quite telling in itself. Given the book`s wish to reach a broad market, it would have been nice to see a truly multispecialty contributorship, composed of both orthopedic and podiatric surgeons. There is a need for such a book, and it still does not exist, with both specialties favoring their own rather than collaborating. This was a lost opportunity." ISBN 9789350257876
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Pages : 548
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