Description
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.
