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Ellis and Calne's Lecture Notes in General Surgery
About this book
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.
The text includes principles of treatment that have been written at a level to inform the medical student and doctor in training. The text features color illustrations throughout and includes electronic access to a wide range of extra material including case studies, radiological and clinical images, and biographies.
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Author affiliations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- About the companion website
- Chapter 1 Surgical strategy
- Chapter 2 Human factors in surgery
- Chapter 3 Fluid and nutrition management
- Chapter 4 Preoperative assessment
- Chapter 5 Postoperative complications
- Chapter 6 Acute infections
- Chapter 7 Tumours
- Chapter 8 Shock
- Chapter 9 Trauma surgery
- Chapter 10 Burns
- Chapter 11 The skin and its adnexae
- Chapter 12 Arterial disease
- Chapter 13 The heart and thoracic aorta
- Chapter 14 The chest and lungs
- Chapter 15 Venous disorders of the lower limb
- Chapter 16 The brain and meninges
- Chapter 17 Head injury
- Chapter 18 The spine
- Chapter 19 Peripheral nerve injuries
- Chapter 20 The oral cavity
- Chapter 21 The salivary glands
- Chapter 22 The oesophagus
- Chapter 23 The stomach and duodenum
- Chapter 24 The surgery of obesity
- Chapter 25 The small intestine
- Chapter 26 The appendix
- Chapter 27 The colon
- Chapter 28 The rectum and anal canal
- Chapter 29 The acute abdomen
- Chapter 30 Intestinal obstruction and paralytic ileus
- Chapter 31 Hernia
- Chapter 32 The liver
- Chapter 33 The gallbladder and bile ducts
- Chapter 34 The pancreas
- Chapter 35 The spleen
- Chapter 36 The lymph nodes and lymphatics
- Chapter 37 The breast
- Chapter 38 The neck
- Chapter 39 The thyroid
- Chapter 40 The parathyroids
- Chapter 41 The thymus
- Chapter 42 The adrenal glands
- Chapter 43 The kidney and ureter
- Chapter 44 The bladder
- Chapter 45 The prostate
- Chapter 46 The male urethra
- Chapter 47 The penis
- Chapter 48 The testis and scrotum
- Chapter 49 Transplantation surgery
- Index
- EULA