Ellis and Calne’s Lecture Notes in General Surgery is a comprehensive guide that focuses on the fundamentals of general surgery while systematically covering all the clinical surgical problems that a student or doctor in training may encounter and about which they need to know.
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Sample topics discussed in Ellis and Calne’s Lecture Notes in General Surgery include:
* Surgical strategy, human factors in surgery, fluid and nutrition management, preoperative assessment, postoperative complications, acute infections, tumours, and shock
* Trauma surgery, burns, the skin and its adnexae, arterial disease, the heart and thoracic aorta, and the chest and lungs
* The brain and meninges, head injury, the spine, peripheral nerve injuries, the oral cavity and the salivary glands
* The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum, the surgery of obesity, the small intestine, the appendix, the colon, and the rectum and anal canal
* The kidney, ureter, bladder, testes and prostate
Trusted by generations of medical students, including the current authors, the clinical emphasis of Ellis and Calne’s Lecture Notes in General Surgery makes this an essential reference for all those wishing to learn more about general surgery. It is also a perfect revision text for medical students and junior surgeons taking the MRCS examination.
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Tabella dei contenuti
Author affiliations, vi
Preface, viii
Acknowledgements, ix
Abbreviations, x
About the companion website, xiv
1 Surgical strategy (Justin Davies), 1
2 Human factors in surgery (Peter A. Brennan), 5
3 Fluid and nutrition management (Lynsey Spillman), 12
4 Preoperative assessment (Hemantha Alawattegama), 20
5 Postoperative complications (Elizabeth Tweedle), 27
6 Acute infections (Christopher Watson), 49
7 Tumours (Christopher Watson), 55
8 Shock (Vijay Sujendran), 63
9 Trauma surgery (Jonathan Morton), 70
10 Burns (Ian Grant), 79
11 The skin and its adnexae (Amer J. Durrani), 86
12 Arterial disease (Patrick Coughlin), 101
13 The heart and thoracic aorta (David P. Jenkins), 119
14 The chest and lungs (Aman Singh Coonar), 129
15 Venous disorders of the lower limb (Manj Gohel), 140
16 The brain and meninges (Stephen Price), 147
17 Head injury (Stephen Price), 157
18 The spine (Rodney J. C. Laing), 170
19 Peripheral nerve injuries (Ian Grant), 182
20 The oral cavity (Kanwalraj Moar), 189
21 The salivary glands (Brian Fish), 203
22 The oesophagus (Peter Safranek), 208
23 The stomach and duodenum (Stavros Gourgiotis), 218
24 The surgery of obesity, (Christopher Pring), 240
25 The small intestine (Justin Davies), 245
26 The appendix (Ioanna G. Panagiotopoulou), 251
27 The colon (Justin Davies), 259
28 The rectum and anal canal (Justin Davies), 274
29 The acute abdomen (Constantinos Simillis), 289
30 Intestinal obstruction and paralytic ileus (Christopher Watson), 299
31 Hernia (Christopher Watson), 311
32 The liver (Raaj Kumar Praseedom), 323
33 The gallbladder and bile ducts (Anita Balakrishnan), 340
34 The pancreas (Raaj Kumar Praseedom), 351
35 The spleen (Christopher Watson), 364
36 The lymph nodes and lymphatics (Christopher Watson), 367
37 The breast (Eleftheria Kleidi), 371
38 The neck (Ekpemi Irune), 389
39 The thyroid (Brian Fish), 393
40 The parathyroids (Ekpemi Irune), 406
41 The thymus (Christopher Watson), 412
42 The adrenal glands (Vasilis Kosmoliaptsis), 414
43 The kidney and ureter (Alexandra J. Colquhoun), 425
44 The bladder (Alexandra J. Colquhoun), 444
45 The prostate (Arthur Mc Phee), 450
46 The male urethra (Arthur Mc Phee), 459
47 The penis (Arthur Mc Phee), 462
48 The testis and scrotum (Alexandra J. Colquhoun), 466
49 Transplantation surgery (Christopher Watson), 476
Index, 000
Circa l’autore
Christopher Watson, MD BChir FRCS, Professor of Transplantation and Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
Justin Davies, MA MChir FRCS FEBS, The department of Surgery, Addenbrooke Hospital, Cambridge University, UK.
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