TECHNIQUES IN HAND SURGERY. Edited by William F. Blair and Curtis M. Steyers. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1996. $225.00, 1199 pp.

This book has 166 authors and 148 chapters. The chapters are organized into twelve sections, both by type of procedure, such as tendon repair, and by type of tissue, such as skin coverage. Each chapter is divided into discussions of the history of the technique, the indications and contraindications, a description …