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Essential Surgery is a highly respected, internationally popular textbook that is comprehensive, fully updated and a pleasure to read.

The seventh edition provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, from the attributes a surgeon needs, to how to interpret a patient’s story, as well as problem-orientated information about diseases and their management, including emergencies. It covers the full range of surgery, including general and gastro-intestinal surgery, trauma, orthopaedics, vascular surgery, urology, paediatric surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery and ENT emergencies.

With a logical layout, clear writing style and extensive use of illustrations, this book is ideal for clinical students, surgical trainees in their first few years, as well as for those in professions allied to medicine.

• Fully updated for its seventh edition - provides the latest evidence and detailed information
• Covers topics not typically covered in other surgical textbooks including managing soft tissue and orthopaedic trauma, plus sections on plastic surgery, neurosurgery, blood transfusion and applied microbiology
• Incorporates a problem-solving approach wherever possible - explains how diagnoses are made and why particular treatments are used
• Emphasis on the principles of surgery and perioperative care - provides a real understanding of the field
• Clear, logical layout and hundreds of illustrations - easy to read and understand
• Written by experts in their field, and closely edited for easy comprehension
• Covers the syllabus of the MRCS examination and is also suitable as a refresher for higher surgical trainees preparing for the FRCS and other higher surgical exams
• Text boxes and tables reinforce important contents and support revision
• An enhanced eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customise your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

• New information on diagnostic imaging and screening
• New section on ‘prehabilitation’, optimising the patient for surgery
• New section on management of obesity, including bariatric surgery
• Substantially rewritten chapters on cancer and transplantation

Tartalomjegyzék:

Section A Principles of Surgical Care
1. Mechanisms of Surgical Disease and Surgery in Practice Disease Processes
2. Managing Physiological Change in the Surgical Patient
3. Immunity, Inflammation and Infection
4. Shock and Resuscitation Diagnostic Techniques
5. Imaging and Interventional Techniques in Radiology and Surgery
6. Screening for Adult Disease

Section B Perioperative Care
7. Preoperative Assessment and Management of Postoperative Problems
8. Medical Problems
9. Blood Transfusion
10. Principles and Techniques of Operative Surgery Including Neurosurgery
11. Elective Orthopaedics
12. Complications of Surgery
13. Principles of Cancer Management
14. Principles of Transplantation Surgery

Section C Principles of Trauma Surgery
15. Major Trauma
16. Head and Maxillofacial Injuries
17. Soft Tissue Injuries and Burns

Section D Symptoms, Diagnosis and Management; Abdomen, General Principles
18. Nonacute Abdominal Pain and Other Abdominal Symptoms and Signs
19. The Acute Abdomen and Acute Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage

Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary
20. Gallstone Diseases and Related Disorders
21. Peptic Ulceration and Related Disorders
22. Disorders of the Oesophagus
23. Tumours of the Stomach and Small Intestine
24. Tumours of the Pancreas and Hepatobiliary System; the Spleen
25. Pancreatitis

Coloproctology
26. Appendicitis
27. Colorectal Polyps and Carcinoma
28. Chronic Inflammatory Disorders of the Bowel
29. Disorders of Large Bowel Motility, Structure and Perfusion
30. Anal and Perianal Disorders

Thoracic Surgery Excluding Cardiac
31. Thoracic Surgery Groin and Male Genitalia
32. Hernias and Other Groin Problems
33. Disorders of the Male Genitalia

Urology
34. Symptoms, Signs and Investigation of Urinary Tract Disorders
35. Disorders of the Prostate
36. Tumours of the Kidney and Urinary Tract
37. Stone Disease of the Urinary Tract
38. Urinary Tract Infections
39. Congenital Disorders and Diseases Secondarily Involving the Urinary Tract

Cardiovascular Disorders
40. Pathophysiology, Clinical Features and Diagnosis of Vascular Disease Affecting the Limbs
41. Managing Lower Limb Arterial Insufficiency, the Diabetic Foot and Major Amputations
42. Aneurysms and Other Peripheral Arterial Disorders
43. Venous Disorders of the Lower Limb
44. Cardiac Surgery

Disorders of the Breast and Skin
45. Disorders of the Breast
46. Disorders of the Skin

Disorders of the Head and Neck
47. Lumps in the Head and Neck and Salivary Calculi
48. Disorders of the Mouth
49. Disorders of the Thyroid, Parathyroid and Adrenal Glands

Neonatal and Paediatric Surgery
50. Acute Surgical Problems in Children
51. Nonacute Abdominal and Urological Problems in Children