Lecture Notes: General Surgery

Description

General Surgery Lecture Notes continues to be an invaluable, appealing and approachable resource for thousands of medical students and surgical trainees throughout the world. This comprehensive guide focuses on the fundamentals of general surgery, and systematically covers all the clinical surgical problems that a student may encounter and about which they need to know.

Fully revised and updated to reflect the rapid changes which are taking place in surgical practice, this 50th anniversary edition:

• Includes principles of treatment written at student level to aid understanding
• Features full colour illustrations throughout
• Includes electronic access to a range of extra material including case studies, images and photographs, and biographies
• Includes free access to the Wiley E-Text
• Includes a companion website at www.lecturenoteseries.com/surgery featuring MCQs, SAQs, case studies, images, photographs, and biographies
• Is a perfect review text for medical students as well as junior surgeons taking the MRCS examination and other postgraduate surgical examinations

Trusted by generations of medical students, the clinical emphasis of General Surgery Lecture Notes makes this an essential purchase for all those wishing to learn more about general surgery.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1 Surgical strategy
2 Fluid and nutrition management
3 Preoperative assessment
4 Postoperative complications
5 Acute infections
6 Tumours
7 Shock
8 Burns
9 The skin and its adnexae
10 The chest and lungs
11 The heart and thoracic aorta
12 Arterial disease
13 Venous disorders of the lower limb
14 The brain and meninges
15 Head injury
16 The spine
17 Peripheral nerve injuries
18 The Oral Cavity
19 The salivary glands
20 The oesophagus
21 The stomach and duodenum
22 Mechanical intestinal obstruction
23 Paralytic ileus
24 The small intestine
25 Acute appendicitis
26 The colon
27 The rectum and anal canal
28 Peritonitis
29 Hernia
30 The liver
31 The gallbladder and bile ducts
32 The pancreas
33 The spleen
34 The lymph nodes and lymphatics
35 The breast
36 The neck
37 The thyroid
38 The parathyroids
39 The thymus
40 The adrenal glands
41 The kidney and ureter
42 The bladder
43 The prostate
44 The male urethra
45 The penis
46 The testis and scrotum
47 Transplantation surgery