Surgery at a Glance

Description

Following the familiar, easy-to-use at a Glance format, and now in full-colour, Surgery at a Glance is an accessible introduction and revision text for medical students. Fully revised and updated, this at a Glance provides a user-friendly overview of surgery to encapsulate all that the student needs to know.

This new edition of Surgery at a Glance:

• Is presented in full colour format for ease of use
• Focuses on the core principles and the important diseases appropriate to the current curriculum
• Features extended coverage of anaesthesia and paediatric surgery
• Divides the ‘Paediatric surgery’ chapter into two new chapters to feature infantile pyloric stenosis, intussusception and malrotation of the gut
• Reflects the latest practice, e.g. new therapies for varicose veins resection
• Includes more practical information in the Presentations section on specifically ward-based topics

Surgery at a Glance is an invaluable resource for all clinical medical students, junior doctors, and surgical nurses.

Reviews of the previous edition

"‘This book is ideal for finals as diagrams help the revision numbed mind to retain information. It is extremely quick and easy to read and the list-based information is an ideal basis for short-answer questions." Barts and the London Chronicle

"Delightful book… the quality of the diagrams is such that for the majority of topics the text is almost superfluous." British Journal of Surgery

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations

Part 1: Clinical Presentations at a Glance

• 1. Neck lump
• 2. Dysphagia
• 3. Haemoptysis
• 4. Breast lump
• 5. Breast pain
• 6. Nipple discharge
• 7. Gastrointestinal bleeding
• 8. Dyspepsia
• 9. Vomiting
• 10. Acute abdominal pain
• 11. Chronic abdominal pain
• 12. Abdominal swellings (general)
• 13. Abdominal swellings (localized): upper abdominal
• 14. Abdominal swellings (localized): lower abdominal
• 15. Jaundice
• 16. Diarrhoea
• 17. Altered bowel habit / constipation
• 18. Groin swellings
• 19. Claudication
• 20. Acute warm painful leg
• 21. Acute 'cold' leg
• 22. Leg ulceration
• 23. Dysuria
• 24. Urinary retention
• 25. Haematuria
• 26. Scrotal swellings
• 27. Stomas and incisions

Part 2: Surgical Diseases at a Glance

• 28. Anaesthesia
• 29. Hypoxia
• 30. Surgical infection
• 31. Sepsis
• 32. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
• 33. Shock
• 34. Acute renal failure
• 35. Fractures
• 36. Burns
• 37. Major trauma - basic principles
• 38. Head injury
• 39. Gastro-oesophageal reflux
• 40. Oesophageal carcinoma
• 41. Peptic ulceration
• 42. Gastric carcinoma
• 43. Malabsorption
• 44. Crohn's disease
• 45. Acute appendicitis
• 46. Diverticular disease
• 47. Ulcerative colitis
• 48. Colorectal carcinoma
• 49. Benign anal and perianal disorders
• 50. Intestinal obstruction
• 51. Abdominal hernias
• 52. Gallstone disease
• 53. Pancreatitis
• 54. Pancreatic tumours
• 55. Benign breast disease
• 56. Breast cancer
• 57. Goitre
• 58. Thyroid malignancies
• 59. Parathyroid disease
• 60. Pituitary disorders
• 61. Adrenal disorders
• 62. Skin cancer
• 63. Ischaemic heart disease
• 64. Valvular heart disease
• 65. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD)
• 66. The diabetic foot
• 67. Aneurysms
• 68. Extracranial arterial disease
• 69. Venous thromboembolism
• 70. Varicose veins
• 71. Lymphoedema
• 72. Postoperative pulmonary complications
• 73. Bronchial carcinoma
• 74. Urinary tract infection
• 75. Benign prostatic hypertrophy
• 76. Renal (urinary) calculi
• 77. Renal cell carcinoma
• 78. Carcinoma of the bladder
• 79. Carcinoma of the prostate
• 80. Testicular cancer
• 81. Urinary incontinence
• 82. Solid organ transplantation
• 83. Paediatric 'general' surgery

Index

Author Information

Professor Pierce Grace (MCh, FRCSI, FRCS) is Professor of Surgical Science and Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the University of Limerick.

Mr Neil Borley (MBBS, FRCS) is Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Cheltenham General Hospital.