Mariano Socolovsky, Lukas Rasulic, Rajiv Midha, and Debora Garozzo (eds): Manual of peripheral nerve surgery: from the basics to complex procedures

Excerpt

This book is a manual for the peripheral nerve surgeon that informs and demonstrates with excellent illustrations and clinical examples. It logically starts with excellent descriptions of the relevant anatomy shown by clear schematic illustrations and cadaveric dissections (suggestion: that would have benefitted by having orientation marked on them). Many pearls are provided along the way such as mentioning the distal Riche-Cannieu anastomosis between the thenar branch of the median nerve and the deep branch of the ulnar nerve in the hand. The chapters are short but richly informative and easy to digest. Refreshingly, equal attention is given to the brachial plexus and lumbo-sacral plexus, though the latter is much less often operated upon. There are many chapters by many different authors which makes a certain amount of redundancy unavoidable. However, I have never found this to be a negative, since repetition leads to greater retention of knowledge. Chaper 4—Clinical Aspects of Peripheral Nerve Lesions in the Upper Limb—I found to be particularly comprehensive and clinically useful. …