9781853157196
Recent advances in surgery 31.
Ed. by Colin D. Johnson and Irving Taylor.
Royal Society of Medicine Pr.
2008
214 pages
$69.00
Paperback
RD39
Designed for use by seasoned professionals as well as students and
candidates for the UK's MRCS/AFRCS and Intercollegiate
examinations, this edition includes seven articles on gastrointestinal
surgery along with seven articles on other topics of interest. General
subjects include training and techniques in general surgery (on virtual
reality simulation and the use of drains), general abdominal surgery
(laparoscopic techniques for the acute abdomen and procedures to follow
after kidney or liver transplantation), vascular surgery (stroke and
cerebrovertebral reconstruction after stroke), sentinel node biopsy in
breast surgery and current evidence from randomized trials. The articles
on gastrointestinal surgery address such issues as bariatric surgery,
neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for pancreatic cancer, neoplasms of the
pancreas, stomal tumors, imaging, laparascopic surgery and treatment for
rectal tumors.
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