"Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. This book details the efforts and innovations of the doctors, surgeons, corpsmen and medics who worked to preserve life under extreme and dangerous conditions"
"Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. This book details the efforts and innovations of the doctors, surgeons, corpsmen and medics who worked to preserve life under extreme and dangerous conditions"--
"Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons. This book details the efforts and innovations of the doctors, surgeons, corpsmen and medics who worked to preserve life under extreme and dangerous conditions"--
For the surgeon of antiquity the liver has been an organ of mystery - and danger. Attempts to repair its wounds or remove tumors were fraught with hemorrhage and often a fatal outcome. Most forays were those to remove easily accessible tumors on the liver edge, but bleeding was …