Description

The leading surgery text for medical students, residents, and surgeons! Covering over 1,000 diseases and disorders managed by surgeons, this new edition encompasses general surgery and the surgical subspecialties and emphasizes quick recall of major diagnostic features and succinct descriptions of disease processes. This major revision and updating features the latest on minimally invasive surgical techniques, and particularly extensive changes to chapters on oncology, colon and rectal surgery, plastic surgery, vascular surgery, and cardiothoracic surgery.

Evidence-based, point-of-care information on the full scope of diseases and disorders most often treated by surgeons

• Expansive coverage of general surgery and all subspecialties you need to be versed in, including otolaryngology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, gynecology, orthopedics, urology, oncology, organ transplantation, and pediatric surgery
• Intuitively organized to help you find answers quickly and easily
• More than 600 photographs and illustrations
• Detailed treatment algorithms
• Concise overview of core topics in the general surgery curriculum
• Hundreds of chapter-ending multiple-choice review questions
• Updated throughout with the latest research and discoveries