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CLINICAL SURGERY
Clinical Surgery
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Second Edition

By
Michael Henry, MB, FRCS, Consultant Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK
Jeremy Thompson, MA, MB, MChir, FRCS, Consultant Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK

Description
First Prize (Surgery category), BMA Awards 2005. A comprehensive and attractively presented 4-colour textbook of surgery aimed primarily at medical students but also of use to junior doctors and surgical technicians. The book has two key features: firstly, it provides students with coverage of every aspect of surgery; secondly, it has been designed and written to be the 'surgical companion' to Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine. This new edition will also offer an online version to all purchasers of the book - the first surgical textbook in the UK to make an electronic version available.

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Audience
  • Medical students and junior doctors
  • Surgical technicians


Contents


SECTION 1 - GENERAL ISSUES


1. Surgery -- what it is and what a surgeon does
2. Organisation of surgical services including legal and ethical issues
3. Accident and emergency
4. Investigation of the surgical patient
5. The operation
6. Anaesthesia and pain control
7. Perioperative management and postoperative complications
8. Wound healing and management
9. Surgical infection
10. The seriously ill and injured patient
11. Practical procedures
12. Principles of surgical oncology
13. Organ transplantation



SECTION 2 - REGIONAL SURGERY


14. The neck and upper aerodigestive tract
15. Ear and nose
16. Chest and lungs
17. Cardiac surgery
18. Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
19. Liver and biliary tree
20. The spleen
21. Surgical Aspects of pancreatic disease
22. Acute abdominal conditions - surgical aspects
23. Small bowel and intestinal obstruction
24. Large bowel including appendix
25. Anal and related disorders
26. Hernia
27. Breast disease
28. Arterial surgery
29. Venous and lymphatic disorders



SECTION 3 - SURGICAL SPECIALTIES


30. Neurosurgery
31. Surgery of the endocrine glands
32. Urology
33. Principles of orthopaedics
34. Principles of management of fractures, joint injuries and peripheral nerve injuries
35. Principles of paediatric surgery
36. Ophthalmology in clinical surgery
37. Principles of plastic surgery
38. Surgical principles - skin disorders
39. Surgery in the tropics

Index

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 824 pages, publication date: DEC-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2719-2
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2719-7
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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