Description
Book SynopsisSurgery is a constantly evolving specialty in medicine – research and technological advances have made surgical procedures safer and more effective and offer shorter recovery times.
Recent Advances in Surgery 40 is the latest volume in the recognised series reviewing current topics in general surgery and its major subspecialties.
Divided into eight sections, the book begins with topics of general interest to surgeons, and surgical training. The following sections cover subspecialty surgeries including transplant, vascular, head and neck, breast, and abdominal. The final section reviews recent clinical trials.
With contributions from recognised experts, many from the UK, this new volume covers all the latest developments in surgery, providing excellent revision material for professional examinations, and helping consultant surgeons keep up to date across the specialty.
Key points
- Latest volume in series bringing surgeons and trainees up to date with the latest advances in general surgery and its subspecialties
- Features discussion on surgical training
- Includes review of recent randomised clinical trials
- Recognised editor and author team, based mainly in the UK
Table of ContentsSection 1: Surgery in general
- Facemasks in the prevention of infection in surgery
- Quality improvement in surgery
- Paediatric surgery in low- and middle-income countries
Section 2: Surgical training
- Enhancing surgical training through integration of e-learning
- Excellence versus competence in surgical training
Section 3: Transplant surgery
- Organ donation: ethical issues of consent and organ trade and strategies to increase donor numbers
Section 4: Vascular surgery
- Long-term outcomes of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Section 5: Head and neck surgery
- Osteonecrosis of the jaw: An iatrogenic condition in the 21st century
- Minimally invasive thyroidectomy
Section 6: Breast surgery
- Partial breast irradiation for cancer
- Evolving trends in localisation techniques in breast surgery
- Advances in genetic risk of breast cancer
Section 7: Abdominal surgery
- Para-oesophageal hernias
- Idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
- Recent advances in complete mesocolic excision surgery for colon cancer
Section 8: Clinical trials
- Major randomized controlled trials in surgery in the last five years
