General Surgery, 13th Edition

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
• Includes electronic access to a range of extra material including case studies, images and photographs, and biographies
• Includes free access to the Wiley E-Text
• Includes a companion website at www.lecturenoteseries.com/surgery featuring MCQs, SAQs, case studies, images, photographs, and biographies
• Is a perfect review text for medical students as well as junior surgeons taking the MRCS examination and other postgraduate surgical examinations

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Surgical strategy
Chapter 2 Fluid and nutrition management
Chapter 3 Preoperative assessment
Chapter 4 Postoperative complications
Chapter 5 Acute infections
Chapter 6 Tumours
Chapter 7 Shock
Chapter 8 Burns
Chapter 9 The skin and its adnexae
Chapter 10 The chest and lungs
Chapter 11 The heart and thoracic aorta
Chapter 12 Arterial disease
Chapter 13 Venous disorders of the lower limb
Chapter 14 The brain and meninges
Chapter 15 Head injury
Chapter 16 The spine
Chapter 17 Peripheral nerve injuries
Chapter 18 The oral cavity
Chapter 19 The salivary glands
Chapter 20 The oesophagus
Chapter 21 The stomach and duodenum
Chapter 22 Mechanical intestinal obstruction
Chapter 23 Paralytic ileus
Chapter 24 The small intestine
Chapter 25 Acute appendicitis
Chapter 26 The colon
Chapter 27 The rectum and anal canal
Chapter 28 Peritonitis
Chapter 29 Hernia
Chapter 30 The liver
Chapter 31 The gallbladder and bile ducts
Chapter 32 The pancreas
Chapter 33 The spleen
Chapter 34 The lymph nodes and lymphatics
Chapter 35 The breast
Chapter 36 The neck
Chapter 37 The thyroid
Chapter 38 The parathyroids
Chapter 39 The thymus
Chapter 40 The adrenal glands
Chapter 41 The kidney and ureter
Chapter 42 The bladder
Chapter 43 The prostate
Chapter 44 The male urethra
Chapter 45 The penis
Chapter 46 The testis and scrotum
Chapter 47 Transplantation surgery