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edited by Ervin Epstein, ed 3; 647 pp, with illus, $48.50, Springfield, Ill: Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 1970.

David W. Furnas, MD, Reviewer
University of California Irvine

JAMA. 1970;213(13):2274.

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The recent proliferation of weapons designed to attack lesions of the skin has caused this formerly slim 228-page volume to balloon to a bulging 647 pages. This new edition fulfills the need for an updated text which creates order out of a confusing array of procedures (laser, cryoprobes, fluorouracil, immunological agents, electrosurgery, etc). Thirtytwo authors have contributed.

Skin Surgery is divided into five sections: general considerations, cold steel surgery, electrosurgery, special procedures, and special locations of diseases. The section on special procedures is particularly rich in new contributions: Mohs, who has dedicated most of a distinguished career to his meticulous, controlled means of chemosurgery, gives a concise overview of this technique and results. Dillaha gives an excellent account of topical application of fluorouracil for keratoses. In a provocative study of immunotherapy, Klein relates how an induced hypersensitivity to topical triethyleneiminobenzoquinone causes the disappearance of extensive keratoses, multiple superficial basal cell . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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