Amply supported by line drawings and photographs, algorithms and anatomical depictions, this book provides a comprehensive resource that readily depicts the rationale for the basic operative principles mandated by state-of-the-art surgical therapy.
General Surgery: Principles and International Practice is a concise state-of-the-art volume with evolutionary principles in the management of diseases common to general surgeons.The text is structured so as to document basic surgical tenets required for the management of various surgical diseases in adults and children. Currently, all the available textbooks are not concisely formulated and none are as completely organized with advanced approaches.
This book will allow the reader to succinctly and rapidly review the subject matter in a three-to-five page summary with contemporary bibliography in each chapter and a "Pearls and Pitfalls" section summarizing the ‘impact’, concerns and outcomes of surgical management.
This well-organized tome enables practicing physician-surgeon and student immediate access to material addressing highly specific general surgery topics.
"Go-to" source to rapidly evaluate the organ site-disease
'Pearls and Pitfalls' application to differentiate poignant specified applications for treatment of surgical disease (Pearls) and emphasize failures (Pitfalls) when such diagnostic approaches, technique and therapy are not utilized
Comprehensive insight into selective management of high-risk and rare diseases
General Surgery: Principles and International Practice is organized into ten Sections, each representing an important branch of surgical science. Amply supported by line drawings and photographs, algorithms and anatomical depictions, it provides the medical student, general surgical resident or active practitioner with illustrative, instructive and comprehensive coverage depicting the rationale for the basic operative principles mandated by state-of-the-art surgical therapy. The reader can rapidly review the subject matter in a three-to-five page summary with contemporary bibliography in each chapter and a Pearls and Pitfalls section that summarizes the impact, concerns and outcomes of surgical management.
Kirby I. Bland
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