Main description:

This book is a comprehensive guide to general surgery. Beginning with an introduction to patient preparation, the operating room and postoperative care, the following chapters discuss basic principles of incision and suturing, instruments and outpatient surgery.

Highly illustrated, with more than 2600 operative photographs and diagrams with detailed descriptions, the book covers surgical procedures for disorders in all different parts of the body, including the face, mouth, nervous system, stomach, intestines and much more.

Newer techniques such as laparoscopy, robotic surgeries and liposuction are also discussed in depth.

Key points

• Comprehensive guide to general surgery


• Covers numerous procedures for disorders throughout the body


• Includes newer techniques such as laparoscopy, robotic surgeries and liposuction


• Highly illustrated with more than 2600 operative photographs and diagrams

Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Principles in Operative Surgery


• Chapter 2: Preoperative Preparation, Operation Room, Postoperative Care


• Chapter 3: Basic Principles of Incision, Dissection, Suturing and Haemostasis


• Chapter 4: Day Care Surgery, Ambulatory Surgery, Outpatient Surgery


• Chapter 5: Instruments


• Chapter 6: Energy Sources in Surgery


• Chapter 7: Basic Surgical Procedures


• Chapter 8: Principles of Surgical Management in Trauma


• Chapter 9: Principles of Surgical Treatment in Infections


• Chapter 10: Amputations


• Chapter 11: Surgeries in Arterial Diseases


• Chapter 12: Surgery in Venous Diseases


• Chapter 13: Surgeries of Nerves, Muscles and Tendons


• Chapter 14: Surgeries of Face, Head and Neck


• Chapter 15: Surgery for Thyroid and Parathyroids


• Chapter 16: Surgery for Breast Diseases


• Chapter 17: Surgery of Salivary Glands


• Chapter 18: Basic Principles in Laparotomy and Laparoscopy


• Chapter 19: Surgery of Oesophagus


• Chapter 20: Surgery of Stomach and Duodenum


• Chapter 21: Surgery of small bowel and appendix


• Chapter 22: Surgery of liver and biliary system


• Chapter 23: Surgery and pancreas and spleen


• Chapter 24: Colonic Surgeries


• Chapter 25: Anorectal Surgeries Surgical Anatomy


• Chapter 26: Retroperitoneal Surgeries


• Chapter 27: Urologic Surgeries


• Chapter 28: Obesity and Morbid Obesity


• Chapter 29: Adrenal Gland Surgeries


• Chapter 30: Surgeries in Hernia


• Chapter 31: Surgeries of Penis, Scrotum and Testis


• Chapter 32: Basic Obstetrics and Gynaecologic Surgeries


• Chapter 33: Other procedures