Surgery

Craniosynostosis, the early fusion of skull sutures, is a serious abnormality of infancy and childhood. Because there are many forms of the condition, both isolated and syndromatic, proper diagnosis is essential before treatment could be carried out. Not only has surgical treatment advanced inrecent years, but basic knowledge of sutural and molecul …

When Frank Turnbull came from Toronto to join the staff of the Vancouver General Hospital in 1933 as a brain surgeon, he automatically became Chief Neurosurgeon because he was the only one in the province. When he retired at 81 he was among BC's most distinguished physicians, in sharp contrast to his early years, when regular physicians considered …

Small bowel transplantation has proved to be an exceptionally difficult undertaking because of the twin problem of rejection and graft-versus-host disease. Though still in its infancy, a number of successful clinical cases have now been performed in North America and Europe. Small Bowel Transplantation is the first comprehensive book to review the …