The Surgery of Pancreatic Tumors

This monograph is an important milestone in the surgery of the pancreas. The author, whose keen interest in this field is well known, has summarized and brought down to date the pertinent surgical and pathologic literature of pancreatic tumors. This task in itself is an undertaking of some magnitude, a labor which the author has done well. The surgical problem presented by tumors of the head of the pancreas is particularly the concern of this monograph. The development of knowledge concerning vitamin K, and the significant relationship of this vitamin to cholemic bleeding, has been an important item in lending impetus to the formidable surgery necessitated by tumors of the head of the pancreas. Any one who essays to deal with the problem presented by pancreatic tumors will do well to give serious study to this effort of Brunschwig. There have been surgical monographs written on the pancreas before. This