Description

Rhoton’s Cranial Anatomy and Surgical Approaches, a hardbound collection of the complete 2000 and 2000 classic supplements to NEUROSURGERY, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, is THE must-have resource for any neurosurgeons’ personal library. The latest edition includes a new and lengthy section on Operative Techniques and Instrumentation for Neurosurgery.

Reviews

I have found this review book to be extremely helpful while studying for Path. Because it is made specifically to correspond with Robbins, the chapters in the review book correspond well to topics in either Big or Little Robbins, and – even better – each question’s answer explanation includes reference pages for both texts (in their 8th edition) which is super helpful if you want to look something up.

The answer explanations are thorough, but I do think they could be organized slightly better – I just wish they would start a new line for each answer choice, even though it takes up more room that way. It would just be simpler to look at. However, it’s not a major issue and I’m glad that they do have explanations.

Sometimes the questions seem to ask about the same concept over and over again, but I take it to mean that those concepts are especially high yield and important. And it’s inevitable to have a bit of redundancy when you do multiple questions on a constrained topic. For exam review, this can even be helpful to drill in ideas.

Overall, I love resources that give me reliable questions and answers to practice on, and this book is great for that. It helps me do more active learning than just reading and I find it clear and easy to use. Would definitely recommend for medical students or anyone else wanting to learn pathology!