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Recommendations of Helpful Reference Materials?

Posted By: Renee on 2007-04-23
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Hi, I am just starting out in this field and would like to hear what reference material people find as necessary to have.


 


 


I am just starting out in this field and would like to hear what reference material people find as necessary to have.


 


Also are there any special materials that would be helpful for plastic surgery?


 


Recommendations would be so helpful for me so i can decide what i should buy.


 


Thanks


Renee




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Thank you so much for your very helpful reply. I do have and did look in my reference book but want
handling words with a combining 'o' not using a hyphen and was having trouble finding one. I have Stedmans Radiology 4th edition, which I scanned, circled the words, and faxed them to her. Her response was "The reference book I use is "Words of Radiology" by Kaye Atkinson" I did a Google and it is a 2nd edition book published in 1995, publisher no longer in business.

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