- Focuses on the issues and challenges faced in everyday practice.
- Uses a highly structured, template format in each chapter to quickly and consistently delivers information on basic science
- clinical presentation · non-invasive testing · medical management · surgical management · complications · outcome · and follow up.
- Features over 720 full-color photographs, line drawings, charts and tables to make important information easy to comprehend.
- Integrates the basic sciences only where clinically relevant.
- Covers treatment and interventions from an evidence-based perspective, whenever possible.
- Presents short, clinical vignettes in the same style as those found on oral exams.
- Includes a bonus CD-ROM that makes all of the illustrations available for slide presentations.
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