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Edited by James C. Grotting.
2nd ed, 2 vols, 1860 pp (includes 2 DVDs), $525.
St Louis, MO, Quality Medical Publishing, 2006.
ISBN-13 978-0-9422-1925-8.

JAMA. 2007;298(22):2681-2682.

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While all surgical specialties have their complications that require reoperation, plastic surgery is unusual if not unique in that the outcome in a large percentage of operations is not success or failure but a point somewhere along a continuum to a functional reconstructive or aesthetic outcome. Sometimes, even results that are in most ways successful may still benefit from reoperation. Thus it is valuable to have a book devoted to this topic. For any surgeon, experience comes at the expense of suboptimal outcomes, and so the lessons of reoperation are useful for optimizing outcome of the primary operation and preventing reoperation.

This is the second edition of a book published 12 years ago. Plastic surgery is an innovation-driven specialty changing in so many directions, from macroaesthetics to microsurgery. It is therefore appropriate and necessary to have another edition. The editor, James Grotting, has clearly put his stamp on the book, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas A. Mustoe, MD, Reviewer
Division of Plastic Surgery
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
tmustoe@nmh.org