Operative Treatment of Pelvic Tumors

Hideaki E. Takahashi, Tetsuro Morita, Tetsuo Hotta, and Akira Ogose, editors. Tokyo: Springer-Verlag; 2003. 216 pages. $119.00. This concise textbook on the operative treatment of pelvic tumors represents the thirty-year experience of the senior editor and author, Dr. H.E. Takahashi, at the Niigata University Medical Hospital in Japan. Dr. Takahashi (who has some forty years of experience in the operative treatment of musculoskeletal tumors) and his contributors have done a very nice job of organizing a concise, readable, and generally well-illustrated surgical text. This single-volume textbook is tastefully constructed …