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- More than 800 instruments and tips associated with official names, common nicknames, and descriptions of instrument features, categories, and uses
- Common types of clamping, grasping, cutting, and retracting instruments
- Instruments for specialized procedures (such as bowel, thyroid or breast surgery)
- Cutting loops, and the parts that make up cystoscopes and resectoscopes
- Orthopedic drills and saw blades
- Instruments used in microscopic and endoscopic surgery
- Organization based on surgical specialties
- “Surgical Sessions,†review questions and critical thinking scenarios at the end of every chapter
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