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General Surgical Operations is a highly-praised and comprehensive textbook of operative surgery. It is a practical manual aimed at the surgeon who is about to carry out an operation, rather than just a description of the principles suitable for an examiner. Kirk's General Surgical Operations continues to be aimed at a broad readership: the candidate preparing for the Intercollegiate FRCS in General Surgery or international equivalents; the trained surgeon faced, through necessity, with undertaking an infrequently performed procedure; and the many surgeons working in hospitals throughout the world without access to specialist services. It remains above all a practical text which will guide the surgeon in training, or one unfamiliar with a procedure, on how to perform it, but more importantly on how to manage the uncertainties which so often arise. This is a ¿What to do' book. Using it the reader can aspire to gain diagnostic, decision making and operative surgical competence with confidence.
List of contents
- Choose well, cut well, get well
- Anaesthesia-related techniques
- The severely injured patient
- Laparotomy: elective and emergency
- Principles of minimal access surgery
- Abdominal wall and hernias
- Appendix and abdominal abscess
- Oesophagus
- Oesophageal cancer
- Stomach and duodenum
- Small bowel and operations for obesity
- Colonoscopy
- Colon
- Anorectum
- Biliary tract
- Pancreas
- Liver and portal venous system
- Spleen
- Breast
- Thyroid
- Parathyroidectomy
- Adrenal
- Arteries
- Veins and lymphatics
- Sympathectomy and the management of hyperhidrosis
- Transplantation
- Thorax
- Head and neck
- Orthopaedics and trauma: amputations
- Orthopaedics and trauma: general principles
- Orthopaedics and trauma: upper limb
- Orthopaedics and trauma: lower limb
- Plastic surgery
- Paediatric surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Upper urinary tract
- Lower urinary tract
- Male genitalia
- Gynaecological surgery
- Ear, nose and throat
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Ophthalmology
Summary
Focuses on operative surgery. This title is aimed at a broad readership: the candidate preparing for the Intercollegiate FRCS in General Surgery or international equivalents; and the trained surgeon faced, through necessity, with undertaking an infrequently performed procedure.
