General Surgery

General Surgery: Principles and International Practice is organized into Ten Sections, each representing an important branch of surgical science. It aims to provide the medical student, general surgical resident or active practitioner with an illustrative, instructive and comprehensive textbook 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 summarizing the ‘impact’, concerns and outcomes of surgical management.

Amply supported by line drawings and photographs, algorithms and anatomical depictions, this provides the student of diseases, as well as those studying for Board examinations, a text that has rapidly assimilated data into the most contemporary applications of surgical therapy.

• Surgery
• principles and practice
• surgical management
• surgical therapy

From the reviews:

"This … book covers the full spectrum of topics of interest to general surgeons. … the book organizes the material in a unique and highly practical format. … Written for practicing surgeons, the book should be valuable to residents, fellows, and students as well. … an excellent reference for surgeons preparing to take the boards or preparing for maintenance of certification. … Surgeons who need a … detailed book addressing management of surgical problems (including the most complex ones) will find excellent guidance here." (Carol Scott-Conner, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2009)

• Department of Surgery, Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, USA

  Kirby I. Bland

• Department of General and Visceral Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Markus W. Büchler

• Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Santiago, Chile

  Attila Csendes

• James C. Mason Professor of Surgery Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, USA

  Michael G. Sarr

• Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

  O. James Garden

• Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

  John Wong

Dr Kirby I. Bland is Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman, the Department of Surgery and Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has published over 400 journal articles and is Primary Editor of 8 books. His past appointments include President of the Society of Surgical Oncology (1996/97) and Society of Surgical Chairs (2001) and President of the Association for Academic Surgery.

Dr. Michael G. Sarr is Chief of Surgery at the Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota. He is a member of the American Motility Society, American Physiological Society, and most of the major surgical societies. He has published over 200 journal articles and is a co-editor of the new Mayo Clinic Gastrointestinal Surgery book just published by Saunders.

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