Surgery of the Head and Neck

This small but well-written volume adds notably to the series of handbooks of operative surgery. The line drawings by Jessie W. Phillips are clear and effectively complement the text. In addition to outlining the standard operative procedures on the head and neck, many worthwhile features of examination, preoperative and postoperative care, anesthesia, and operative complications peculiar to this anatomic region are presented. The radical approach to lesions of the head and neck depicted in this volume represents the only rational method of obtaining reasonable results in long-followed cases. The only criticisms concern the site of division of the prethyroid muscles in plate 57 and the placement of the vertical portion of the incision for neck dissection, in plate 71. The strap muscles of the thyroid region should be divided at a higher level than shown in the plate, and the vertical portion of the neck dissection incision should be placed