Kirk's General Surgical Operations
- 6th Edition - April 23, 2013
- Editors: Richard Novell, Daryll Baker, Nicholas Goddard
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 4 4 8 1 - 6
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General Surgical Operations is a highly-praised and comprehensive textbook of operative surgery. It is a practical manual aimed at the surgeon who is about to carry out an operation, rather than just a description of the principles suitable for an examiner.
Kirk’s General Surgical Operations continues to be aimed at a broad readership: the candidate preparing for the Intercollegiate FRCS in General Surgery or international equivalents; the trained surgeon faced, through necessity, with undertaking an infrequently performed procedure; and the many surgeons working in hospitals throughout the world without access to specialist services. It remains above all a practical text which will guide the surgeon in training, or one unfamiliar with a procedure, on how to perform it, but more importantly on how to manage the uncertainties which so often arise
This is a ‘What to do’ book. Using it the reader can aspire to gain diagnostic, decision making and operative surgical competence with confidence.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- 1 Choose well, cut well, get well
- CHOOSE WELL
- CUT WELL
- GET WELL
- REFERENCES
- 2 Anaesthesia-related techniques
- INTRODUCTION
- TECHNIQUES TO ASSESS PERIOPERATIVE RISK
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- OXYGEN THERAPY
- FURTHER READING
- PERIPHERAL VENOUS ACCESS
- CENTRAL VENOUS ACCESS
- INTRAOSSEOUS ACCESS
- GENERAL ANAESTHESIA TECHNIQUES
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- LOCAL ANAESTHESIA TECHNIQUES
- REFERENCE
- CENTRAL NEURO-AXIAL BLOCKS
- MANAGEMENT OF SURGICAL PATIENTS RECEIVING LONG-TERM ANTICOAGULANT OR ANTIPLATELET THERAPY
- REFERENCE
- 3 The severely injured patient
- INTRODUCTION
- PRINCIPLES OF DAMAGE CONTROL
- NECK AND THORACIC OUTLET
- CHEST
- ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
- PELVIS
- SOFT-TISSUE WOUNDS
- FURTHER READING
- 4 Laparotomy: elective and emergency
- INTRODUCTION
- OPENING THE ABDOMEN
- RE-OPENING THE ABDOMEN
- ABDOMINAL ADHESIONS
- EXPLORATORY LAPAROTOMY
- PERITONEAL LAVAGE
- CLOSING THE ABDOMEN
- ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME
- BURST ABDOMEN
- LAPAROTOMY FOR TRAUMA
- LAPAROTOMY FOR PERITONITIS
- LAPAROTOMY FOR INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
- LAPAROTOMY FOR GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING
- NON-VARICEAL UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING
- LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING
- LAPAROTOMY FOR EARLY POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS
- REFERENCES
- 5 Principles of minimal access surgery
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAPAROSCOPY
- FURTHER READING
- 6 Abdominal wall and hernias
- GENERAL ISSUES IN HERNIA SURGERY
- INGUINAL HERNIA
- FEMORAL HERNIA
- UMBILICAL HERNIA
- UMBILICAL INFECTIONS, TUMOURS, FISTULAS AND SINUSES
- EPIGASTRIC HERNIA AND PORT-SITE HERNIA
- INCISIONAL HERNIA
- SPIGELIAN HERNIA
- PARASTOMAL HERNIA
- NON-HIATAL DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA
- LUMBAR HERNIA
- OBTURATOR HERNIA
- GLUTEAL AND SCIATIC HERNIA
- PELVIC FLOOR HERNIA
- INTERNAL HERNIA
- HAEMATOMA OF THE RECTUS SHEATH
- ABDOMINAL WALL SEPSIS
- SYNERGISTIC SPREADING GANGRENE
- NECROTIZING FASCIITIS
- GAS GANGRENE
- DESMOID AND OTHER ABDOMINAL WALL TUMOURS
- BLOCK DISSECTION OF GROIN LYMPH NODES
- INGUINAL NODES
- ILIAC NODES
- 7 Appendix and abdominal abscess
- OPEN APPENDICECTOMY
- References
- LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDICECTOMY
- References
- FURTHER READING
- APPENDIX MASS
- REFERENCES
- SUBPHRENIC AND SUBHEPATIC ABSCESS
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 8 Oesophagus
- ENDOSCOPY
- INTUBATION OF TUMOURS
- OESOPHAGEAL EXPOSURE
- OPERATIVE CONSIDERATIONS
- OESOPHAGEAL SUBSTITUTES (Fig. 8.14)
- TRAUMA, SPONTANEOUS AND POSTOPERATIVE LEAKS
- CORROSIVE BURNS
- GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
- ACHALASIA OF THE CARDIA
- PHARYNGEAL POUCH
- DIVERTICULA
- FURTHER READING
- 9 Oesophageal cancer
- INTRODUCTION
- RESECTION OF CARCINOMA OF THE LOWER OESOPHAGUS (LEFT THORACO-ABDOMINAL APPROACH)
- OPERATIONS FOR THORACIC OESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA
- ADJUVANT TREATMENT
- FURTHER READING
- 10 Stomach and duodenum
- ENDOSCOPY
- PERIOPERATIVE CARE
- ACCESS IN THE UPPER ABDOMEN
- EXAMINATION OF THE STOMACH AND DUODENUM
- SUTURING AND STAPLING THE STOMACH AND DUODENUM
- Gastrotomy and gastroduodenotomy
- PYLOROMYOTOMY
- OPERATIVE GASTROSTOMY
- PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY
- PERFORATED PEPTIC ULCER
- ELECTIVE SURGERY FOR PEPTIC ULCER
- VAGOTOMY
- PYLOROPLASTY
- DUODENOPLASTY
- GASTRODUODENOSTOMY
- GASTROENTEROSTOMY
- BILLROTH I PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY
- POLYA PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY
- GASTRODUODENAL BLEEDING
- RECURRENT PEPTIC ULCER
- REVISION SURGERY FOLLOWING PEPTIC ULCER SURGERY
- GASTRIC CARCINOMA
- D2 RADICAL ABDOMINAL SUBTOTAL GASTRECTOMY
- ABDOMINAL TOTAL GASTRECTOMY
- RADICAL THORACOABDOMINAL TOTAL GASTRECTOMY
- PALLIATIVE OPERATIONS FOR GASTRIC CARCINOMA
- PROXIMAL GASTRECTOMY OR MERENDINO PROCEDURE (PROXIMAL GASTRECTOMY AND JEJUNAL INTERPOSITION)
- PALLIATIVE PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY
- GASTROENTEROSTOMY
- CARDIAC OBSTRUCTION
- GASTRIC LYMPHOMA
- BENIGN AND NON-EPITHELIAL TUMOURS
- GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOURS
- ZOLLINGER-ELLISON SYNDROME
- FURTHER READING
- 11 Small bowel and operations for obesity
- EXAMINATION OF THE SMALL BOWEL
- REFERENCES
- INTESTINAL ANASTOMOSIS
- ENTERECTOMY (SMALL-BOWEL RESECTION)
- REFERENCES
- ENTERIC BYPASS
- STRICTUREPLASTY
- REFERENCES
- THE ROUX LOOP
- REFERENCES
- ENTEROTOMY
- ENTEROSTOMY
- REFERENCE
- MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
- REFERENCES
- LAPAROSCOPIC APPROACH TO THE SMALL BOWEL
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- OPERATIONS FOR OBESITY
- FURTHER READING
- 12 Colonoscopy
- DESCRIPTION OF OPERATION
- FURTHER READING
- 13 Colon
- PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE LARGE BOWEL
- ELECTIVE OPERATIONS
- URGENT OPERATIONS
- PRINCIPLES OF COLECTOMY
- LAPAROSCOPIC COLECTOMY
- RIGHT HEMICOLECTOMY
- LAPAROSCOPIC RIGHT HEMICOLECTOMY
- LEFT HEMICOLECTOMY
- LAPAROSCOPIC LEFT HEMICOLECTOMY
- CARCINOMA OF THE RECTUM
- ANTERIOR RESECTION OF THE RECTUM
- LAPAROSCOPIC ANTERIOR RESECTION
- HARTMANN'S OPERATION
- ABDOMINOPERINEAL EXCISION OF THE RECTUM
- TRANSVERSE COLOSTOMY
- SIGMOID COLOSTOMY
- COLECTOMY FOR INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
- ELECTIVE COLECTOMY AND ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS
- ELECTIVE TOTAL PROCTOCOLECTOMY
- SOAVE OPERATION
- FURTHER READING
- 14 Anorectum
- INTRODUCTION
- ANATOMY
- HAEMORRHOIDS
- FISSURE
- ANAL ABSCESS AND FISTULA
- FISTULA
- PILONIDAL DISEASE
- HIDRADENITIS SUPPURATIVA
- ANAL MANIFESTATIONS OF CROHN'S DISEASE
- CONDYLOMATA ACUMINATA
- ANAL TUMOURS
- RECTAL ADENOMAS
- RECTAL PROLAPSE
- FAECAL INCONTINENCE
- INJECTION OF BULKING AGENTS
- FURTHER READING
- 15 Biliary tract
- INTRODUCTION
- CHOLECYSTECTOMY
- THE DIFFICULT GALLBLADDER
- INTRA-OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS
- INTRA-OPERATIVE IMAGING OF THE BILIARY TRACT
- SURGICAL EXPLORATION OF THE COMMON BILE DUCT
- TRANSDUODENAL SPHINCTEROPLASTY
- ROUX EN Y HEPATICO-JEJUNOSTOMY – BILIARY RECONSTRUCTION
- FURTHER READING AND REFERENCES
- 16 Pancreas
- INTRODUCTION
- EXPLORATION OF THE PANCREAS
- REFERENCES
- REFERENCES
- LAPAROTOMY FOR NECROTIZING PANCREATITIS
- REFERENCES
- DRAINAGE OF PANCREATIC CYSTS
- REFERENCES
- DRAINAGE OF THE PANCREATIC DUCT
- LAPAROTOMY AND BYPASS FOR PANCREATIC CANCER
- REFERENCES
- DISTAL PANCREATECTOMY
- REFERENCES
- PANCREATICODUDENECTOMY
- REFERENCES
- TOTAL PANCREATECTOMY
- REFERENCES
- LAPAROTOMY FOR ISLET CELL TUMOUR
- REFERENCES
- MINIMALLY INVASIVE PANCREATIC SURGERY
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 17 Liver and portal venous system
- INTRODUCTION
- TRAUMA
- REFERENCES
- PRINCIPLES OF ELECTIVE SURGERY
- BIOPSY OR RESECTION OF A LIVER LESION FOUND AT THE TIME OF LAPAROTOMY
- INFECTIVE LESIONS
- REFERENCE
- NEOPLASMS
- REFERENCES
- SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF HAEMORRHAGE FROM OESOPHAGEAL VARICES
- REFERENCES
- PORTAL DECOMPRESSION
- REFERENCE
- MANAGEMENT OF ASCITES
- 18 Spleen
- LAPAROSCOPIC SPLENECTOMY
- OPEN SPLENECTOMY
- CONSERVATIVE SPLENECTOMY
- FURTHER READING
- 19 Breast
- MANAGEMENT OF BREAST SYMPTOMS (Fig. 19.1)
- BREAST BIOPSY
- BREAST ABSCESS
- DUCT ECTASIA AND MAMMARY DUCT FISTULA
- NIPPLE DISCHARGE AND BLEEDING
- CARCINOMA AND DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU
- Breast conservation surgery
- AXILLARY SURGERY
- SIMPLE MASTECTOMY
- SKIN-SPARING MASTECTOMY (Fig. 19.9)
- BREAST RECONSTRUCTION
- DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES
- OTHER BREAST PROCEDURES
- GYNAECOMASTIA
- FURTHER READING
- 20 Thyroid
- MANAGEMENT OF THE SOLITARY THYROID NODULE AND THE DOMINANT NODULE WITHIN A MULTINODULAR GOITRE
- MANAGEMENT OF MALIGNANT THYROID DISEASE
- MANAGEMENT OF GRAVES’ THYROTOXICOSIS
- MANAGEMENT OF BENIGN MULTINODULAR THYROID DISEASE
- THYROID OPERATIONS
- REFERENCES
- 21 Parathyroid
- HYPERPARATHYROIDISM AND PARATHYROIDECTOMY
- PARATHYROID CARCINOMA
- RE-OPERATION
- FURTHER READING
- 22 Adrenalectomy
- INTRODUCTION
- ANATOMY
- FURTHER READING
- 23 Arteries
- INTRODUCTION
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- REFERENCES
- EXPOSURE OF THE MAJOR PERIPHERAL ARTERIES
- TYPES OF OPERATION
- REFERENCE
- ARTERIAL OPERATIONS
- REFERENCE
- AORTOBIFEMORAL BYPASS
- REFERENCES
- UNILATERAL AORTOFEMORAL/ILIOFEMORAL BYPASS
- ILIAC ARTERY ANGIOPLASTY AND STENTING
- FEMOROPOPLITEAL AND INFRAPOPLITEAL SAPHENOUS VEIN BYPASS
- REFERENCES
- FEMOROPOPLITEAL AND INFRAPOPLITEAL BYPASS WITH PROSTHETIC GRAFT
- REFERENCES
- REPAIR OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM – OPEN SURGERY
- REFERENCE
- REPAIR OF THORACIC AND THORACOABDOMINAL ANEURYSMS
- ENDOVASCULAR REPAIR OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM
- REFERENCE
- REPAIR OF POPLITEAL ANEURYSM
- CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 24 Veins and lymphatics
- MANAGING LEG SUPERFICIAL VENOUS DISEASE (VARICOSE VEIN SURGERY)
- SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF RECURRENT VARICOSE VEINS
- OPERATIONS FOR DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS
- OPERATIONS FOR VENOUS ULCER AND POST-THROMBOTIC SYNDROME
- LYMPHATIC SURGERY
- FURTHER READING
- 25 Sympathectomy and the management of hyperhidrosis
- ASSESSMENT OF HYPERHIDROSIS
- MANAGEMENT OF HYPERHIDROSIS
- 26 Transplantation
- INTRODUCTION
- THE MULTIPLE ORGAN DONOR
- ORGAN PRESERVATION
- TISSUE TYPING
- KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
- LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
- REFERENCES
- PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION
- REFERENCES
- SMALL-BOWEL TRANSPLANTATION
- REFERENCE
- HEART TRANSPLANTATION
- REFERENCES
- HEART–LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 27 Thorax
- ACCESS
- VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY
- CHEST DRAINS
- BRONCHOSCOPY
- CERVICAL MEDIASTINOSCOPY
- LUNG RESECTION
- PLEURODESIS AND PLEURECTOMY
- 28 Head and neck
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- PAROTIDECTOMY
- REFERENCES
- EXPLORATION OF THE LOWER POLE OF THE PAROTID
- OPERATIONS ON THE PAROTID DUCT ORIFICE IN THE MOUTH
- REFERENCE
- REMOVAL OF STONE FROM THE SUBMANDIBULAR DUCT
- SUBMANDIBULAR SIALOADENECTOMY
- EXCISION BIOPSY OF A BASAL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE FACE
- REFERENCE
- LOCAL EXCISION OR BIOPSY OF AN INTRAORAL LESION
- PARTIAL GLOSSECTOMY
- WEDGE EXCISION OF THE LIP
- EXCISION OF SUPRAHYOID (SUBMENTAL) CYST
- EXCISION OF THYROGLOSSAL CYST, SINUS AND FISTULA
- OPERATIONS FOR BRANCHIAL CYST, SINUS AND FISTULA
- EXCISION BIOPSY OF CERVICAL LYMPH NODE
- SCALENE NODE BIOPSY
- OPERATIONS ON TUBERCULOUS CERVICAL LYMPH NODES
- RADICAL PAROTIDECTOMY WITH BLOCK DISSECTION
- RADICAL SUBMANDIBULAR SIALOADENECTOMY WITH RESECTION OF SEGMENT OF MANDIBLE AND BLOCK
- REFERENCE
- FURTHER READING
- 29 Orthopaedics and trauma: amputations
- INTRODUCTION
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- HINDQUARTER AMPUTATION
- REFERENCE
- ABOVE-KNEE AMPUTATION
- BELOW-KNEE AMPUTATION
- SYME'S AMPUTATION
- RAY AMPUTATIONS OF THE FOREFOOT
- AMPUTATION OF THE TOES
- THE UPPER LIMB
- AMPUTATION OF FINGERS
- AMPUTATION THROUGH THE DISTAL PHALANX
- MAJOR UPPER-LIMB AMPUTATIONS
- FURTHER READING
- 30 Orthopaedics and trauma: general principles
- PREOPERATIVE PREPARATION
- Reference
- OPEN WOUNDS
- OPEN (COMPOUND) FRACTURES
- SKELETAL TRACTION
- PERIPHERAL NERVE REPAIR
- TENDON SUTURE
- BIOPSY
- OSTEOMYELITIS
- DRAINAGE OF ACUTE OSTEOMYELITIS
- CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS
- COSTO-TRANSVERSECTOMY FOR TUBERCULOUS ABSCESSES IN CHILDREN
- ACUTE SEPTIC (PYOGENIC) ARTHRITIS
- FURTHER READING
- 31 Orthopaedics and trauma: upper limb
- THE ANTERIOR (DELTOPECTORAL) APPROACH TO THE SHOULDER
- APPROACHES TO THE UPPER ARM
- APPROACHES TO THE ELBOW
- SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURES
- DECOMPRESSION OF THE ULNAR NERVE (CUBITAL TUNNEL)
- APPROACHES TO THE FOREARM
- APPROACHES TO THE WRIST
- DECOMPRESSION OF THE EXTENSOR POLLICIS BREVIS AND ABDUCTOR POLLICIS LONGUS TENDONS
- GANGLION OF THE DORSUM OF THE WRIST
- MEDIAN NERVE DECOMPRESSION IN THE CARPAL TUNNEL
- APPROACHES TO THE HAND AND FINGERS
- RELEASE OF TRIGGER FINGER OR THUMB (Fig. 31.18)
- PERCUTANEOUS FASCIOTOMY FOR DUPUYTREN'S CONTRACTURE
- PYOGENIC INFECTIONS OF THE HAND (Fig. 31.19)
- OPERATIONS ON THE NAILS
- 32 Orthopaedics and trauma: lower limb
- APPROACHES TO THE HIP AND PROXIMAL FEMUR
- APPROACHES TO THE UPPER LEG
- APPROACHES TO THE KNEE
- APPROACHES TO THE LOWER LEG
- TIBIAL COMPARTMENT FASCIOTOMY
- FASCIOTOMY OF THE FOOT
- APPROACHES TO THE ANKLE
- REPAIR OF RUPTURED ACHILLES TENDON (Fig. 32.10)
- RADICAL RESECTION OF THE NAIL BED (ZADEK'S OPERATION) (Fig. 32.11)
- FURTHER READING
- 33 Plastic surgery
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- SKIN GRAFTS
- RANDOM PATTERN SKIN FLAPS
- AXIAL PATTERN SKIN FLAPS
- TISSUE EXPANSION
- GRAFTS OF OTHER TISSUES
- MICROVASCULAR SURGERY
- BURNS
- OTHER WOUNDS
- FACIAL CLEFTS
- GENITALIA
- SCARS
- AESTHETIC SURGERY
- LIPOSUCTION
- LASER SURGERY
- ENDOSCOPIC PLASTIC SURGERY
- PROSTHETIC IMPLANT MATERIALS
- STEM CELL THERAPY
- BIOLOGICAL THERAPY
- NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY (VAC-PUMP™)
- THE FUTURE
- FURTHER READING
- 34 Paediatric surgery
- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PAEDIATRIC SURGERY
- GENERAL PAEDIATRIC SURGICAL TECHNIQUES
- CONDITIONS PRESENTING MAINLY IN THE NEWBORN OR NEONATAL PERIOD
- CONDITIONS TYPICALLY PRESENTING OUTSIDE THE NEWBORN PERIOD
- 35 Neurosurgery
- INTRODUCTION
- THE ETHOS OF NEUROSURGERY
- TRAUMA
- INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE
- CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW
- INITIAL MANAGEMENT OF THE OBTUNDED HEAD INJURED PATIENT
- SCALP LACERATIONS
- DEPRESSED SKULL FRACTURE
- EXTRADURAL HAEMATOMA
- BURR HOLE FOR TAPPING CEREBRAL ABSCESS
- FURTHER READING
- 36 Upper urinary tract
- INTRODUCTION
- ACUTE PYONEPHROSIS (OBSTRUCTED INFECTED KIDNEY)
- REFERENCE
- OBSTRUCTED KIDNEY CAUSED BY A STONE
- CYSTOSCOPIC INSERTION OF A URETERIC STENT
- RENAL TRAUMA
- NEPHRECTOMY FOR TRAUMA
- REPAIR OF A DAMAGED URETER
- DRAINAGE OF A PERINEPHRIC ABSCESS
- OPERATIONS FOR PELVI-URETERIC JUNCTION OBSTRUCTION
- FURTHER READING
- 37 Lower urinary tract
- SUPRAPUBIC CATHETER INSERTION
- CYSTOSCOPY
- OPERATIONS FOR URETHRAL STRICTURES
- PROSTATECTOMY FOR BENIGN PROSTATIC ENLARGEMENT
- FORMATION OF ILEAL CONDUIT
- TRAUMATIC RUPTURE OF THE BLADDER
- RUPTURE OF THE POSTERIOR URETHRA
- FURTHER READING
- 38 Male genitalia
- CIRCUMCISION
- FRENULOPLASTY
- HYDROCELE REPAIR
- EXCISION OF EPIDIDYMAL CYSTS
- INGUINAL ORCHIDECTOMY
- SIMPLE ORCHIDECTOMY
- TESTICULAR TORSION
- TESTICULAR TRAUMA
- VASECTOMY FOR STERILIZATION
- FRACTURED PENIS
- PRIAPISM
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- 39 Gynaecological surgery
- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
- BARTHOLIN'S ABSCESS (OR CYST)
- REMOVAL OF PRODUCTS OF CONCEPTION FROM THE CERVICAL CANAL
- DILATATION AND CURETTAGE (D&c), AND EVACUATION OF RETAINED PRODUCTS OF CONCEPTION (ERPC)
- VAGINAL LACERATION
- LAPAROSCOPY
- OVARIAN OPERATIONS
- SURGERY FOR ECTOPIC PREGNANCY
- TUBAL LIGATION
- HYSTERECTOMY
- MYOMECTOMY
- INCIDENTAL GYNAECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
- CAESAREAN SECTION
- EMERGENCY SURGERY IN PREGNANCY
- FURTHER READING
- 40 Ear, nose and throat
- INTRODUCTION
- FOREIGN BODY IN THE EAR
- REMOVAL OF NASAL FOREIGN BODY
- MANIPULATION OF FRACTURED NOSE
- FOREIGN BODIES IN THE THROAT
- INCISION OF QUINSY (PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS)
- INCISION OF RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS
- RELIEF OF UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION
- LARYNGOTOMY
- EMERGENCY TRACHEOSTOMY
- ELECTIVE TRACHEOSTOMY
- 41 Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ORAL SURGERY
- TOOTH EXTRACTION
- JAW INFECTIONS
- TEMPORO-MANDIBULAR JOINT DISLOCATION
- FACIAL FRACTURES
- FURTHER READING
- 42 Ophthalmology
- INTRODUCTION
- PROTECTING THE EYE
- TARSORRHAPHY
- EYELID INJURIES
- INJURIES OF THE GLOBE
- FOREIGN BODIES
- BURNS
- INFECTIONS AROUND THE EYE
- REMOVING AN EYE
- ACUTE ANGLE-CLOSURE GLAUCOMA
- NEOPLASMS
- FURTHER READING
- Index
- No. of pages: 720
- Language: English
- Edition: 6
- Published: April 23, 2013
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- Hardback ISBN: 9780702044816
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702044823
- eBook ISBN: 9780702051234
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