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The third edition of ‘The Cutting Edge, Basic Veterinary Surgery Techniques’ has been prepared by various veterinary lecturers at the Utrecht University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the University of Ghent, and the Royal Veterinary College of the London University. Its goal is to teach students the essential art of surgery without having a specific species in mind. This edition is designed for an open-access web-based platform. Students worldwide will be able to use the information for their benefit while improving their surgical knowledge and skills.
The ‘Cutting Edge 3’ provides veterinary students and new graduates tools to grasp the principles of surgery, along with a discussion of the limitations and complications of surgical procedures. It should not be regarded as a complete reading text for all surgical problems and techniques but merely a basis for the inexperienced surgeon. Other textbooks will be able to provide more advanced techniques.
Previously published work by Dr. Wim Klein, Dr. Marianne Tryfonidou, Dr. Rien van de Velden, Dr. Peter Stolk, Prof Herman Hazewinkel, Prof Astrid Rijkenhuizen, Dr. Ruud Keg, and Prof Ludo Hellebrekers is updated and expanded. We value their expertise and thank them for their previous work. Mr. Joop Fama is thanked for supplying many of the photographic materials used in this book. The ‘Cutting Edge 3’ is an improvement of the Cutting Edge 2 (2006) and is translated initially from the first edition ‘Leren Opereren’ (2005).
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