Surgery and Biology of Wound Repair

Abstract

This text is top flight. Written in a natural and lucid style, the first 150 or so pages offer a marvelous background for the basic scientific facts involved in wound healing, and the succeeding 350 pages cover the clinical side of the subject as encountered in various body systems. This latter portion of the book is liberally illustrated with photographs, not only the before and after clinical pictures so dear to the plastic surgeon, but operative views, microscopic fields, diagrams, all pertinent and engaging. Understandably, the authors, with their interest in plastic surgery, emphasize the healing of skin wounds and burns and devote 160 pages to this phase; but they successfully avoid a parochial approach to wound repair, a topic that so fundamentally concerns all surgeons. Other chapters discuss in detail the healing of specific structures—tendons, muscle and fascia, nerves, and bone. To complete the subject, a somewhat perfunctory final