Ellis and Calne's Lecture Notes in General Surgery
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Ellis and Calne's Lecture Notes in General Surgery

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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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Author affiliations
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Abbreviations
  9. About the companion website
  10. Chapter 1 Surgical strategy
  11. Chapter 2 Human factors in surgery
  12. Chapter 3 Fluid and nutrition management
  13. Chapter 4 Preoperative assessment
  14. Chapter 5 Postoperative complications
  15. Chapter 6 Acute infections
  16. Chapter 7 Tumours
  17. Chapter 8 Shock
  18. Chapter 9 Trauma surgery
  19. Chapter 10 Burns
  20. Chapter 11 The skin and its adnexae
  21. Chapter 12 Arterial disease
  22. Chapter 13 The heart and thoracic aorta
  23. Chapter 14 The chest and lungs
  24. Chapter 15 Venous disorders of the lower limb
  25. Chapter 16 The brain and meninges
  26. Chapter 17 Head injury
  27. Chapter 18 The spine
  28. Chapter 19 Peripheral nerve injuries
  29. Chapter 20 The oral cavity
  30. Chapter 21 The salivary glands
  31. Chapter 22 The oesophagus
  32. Chapter 23 The stomach and duodenum
  33. Chapter 24 The surgery of obesity
  34. Chapter 25 The small intestine
  35. Chapter 26 The appendix
  36. Chapter 27 The colon
  37. Chapter 28 The rectum and anal canal
  38. Chapter 29 The acute abdomen
  39. Chapter 30 Intestinal obstruction and paralytic ileus
  40. Chapter 31 Hernia
  41. Chapter 32 The liver
  42. Chapter 33 The gallbladder and bile ducts
  43. Chapter 34 The pancreas
  44. Chapter 35 The spleen
  45. Chapter 36 The lymph nodes and lymphatics
  46. Chapter 37 The breast
  47. Chapter 38 The neck
  48. Chapter 39 The thyroid
  49. Chapter 40 The parathyroids
  50. Chapter 41 The thymus
  51. Chapter 42 The adrenal glands
  52. Chapter 43 The kidney and ureter
  53. Chapter 44 The bladder
  54. Chapter 45 The prostate
  55. Chapter 46 The male urethra
  56. Chapter 47 The penis
  57. Chapter 48 The testis and scrotum
  58. Chapter 49 Transplantation surgery
  59. Index
  60. EULA