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Poor Piet deBoer! He and Stanley Hoppenfeld collaborated again for the
third edition of Surgical Exposures in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic
Approach. Since the first edition was published in 1984, this textbook
has become the reference for orthopaedic exposures, but it is
universally referred to only as "Hoppenfeld," as in, "Did
you review the exposure in Hoppenfeld?" Piet deBoer and illustrator Hugh
A. Thomas are all but forgotten.The authors and illustrator have done it again. This third edition is
slightly larger, at 684 pages of text, than the second edition, which had 583
pages of text. The font and spacing have been changed to give the pages a more
open appearance than that in the previous editions, thus making for easier
reading. While the previous editions had some color in the illustrations, the
illustrations in this edition are presented in full color and are also better
spaced, which dramatically improves the appearance of the images.