Lecture Notes: General Surgery: with Wiley E–Text

THE GOLDEN JUBILEE EDITION OF A CLASSIC TEXTBOOK, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1965

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
Is a perfect review text for medical students as well as junior surgeons taking the MRCS examination and other postgraduate surgical examinations
Includes a companion website at www.lecturenoteseries.com/surgery featuring over 450 interactive MCQs, case studies, relevant imaging and clinical photography

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.

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