Essentials of Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice

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Lazar J. Greenfield, Michael W. Mulholland
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1997 - Medical - 835 pages
This condensed version of the classic textbook, Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice, Second Edition, provides students and surgeons with an easily accessible compendium of essential information. It is the ideal guide for students in six-to-eight-week surgical rotations and an excellent resource for surgical residents and surgeons needing a concise and portable reference. The first part of the book, Scientific Principles, presents clinically relevant scientific information, and includes chapters on cytokines, human gene therapy, and the immunobiology of organ transplants. The second part, Surgical Practice, consists of 20 sections devoted to specific organ systems, plus a section on pediatric surgery. Each section provides the information the surgeon needs on anatomy and physiology and describes surgical procedures for specific diseases.
 

Contents

CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
3
NUTRITION AND METABOLISM
15
WOUND HEALING
22
HEMOSTASIS
32
INFLAMMATION
44
INFECTION
52
SHOCK
61
CRITICAL CARE
67
ANTIBIOTICASSOCIATED COLITIS
366
HERNIA MESENTERY AND RETROPERITONEUM
383
ACUTE ABDOMEN AND APPENDIX
398
SPLEEN
407
SECTION J SURGICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY
415
ADRENAL GLANDS
426
PITUITARY GLAND
432
BREAST
439

FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES AND ACIDBASE BALANCE
76
TRAUMA
82
BURNS
93
ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PAIN MANAGEMENT
101
HUMAN GENE THERAPY
124
TRANSPLANTATION AND IMMUNOLOGY
133
SECTION A HEAD AND NECK
147
SECTION B ESOPHAGUS
155
TUMORS INJURIES AND MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
168
ENDOSURGICAL PRINCIPLES
174
DUODENAL ULCER
186
STRESS ULCER AND GASTRIC ULCER
192
MORBID OBESITY
199
SMALL INTESTINE
209
ILEUS AND BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
216
CROHNS DISEASE
222
SECTION E PANCREAS
235
NEOPLASMS OF THE EXOCRINE PANCREAS
253
NEOPLASMS OF THE ENDOCRINE PANCREAS
259
SECTION F LIVER AND PORTAL VENOUS SYSTEM
265
HEPATIC NEOPLASMS
291
SECTION G GALLBLADDER AND BILIARY TRACT
297
SECTION H COLON RECTUM AND ANUS
325
COLONIC POLYPS AND POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES
339
ANAL CANCER
352
ACUTE GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE
359
CHEST WALL PLEURA MEDIASTINUM AND NONNEOPLASTIC
459
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
473
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
480
ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE
492
MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT
499
ARTERIAL SYSTEM
511
THROMBOSIS
521
ARTERIAL COMPRESSION SYNDROMES
531
TISSUE ISCHEMIA
537
ARTERIAL HEMODYNAMICS AND VASCULAR DIAGNOSTICS
546
DIAGNOSTIC ANGIOGRAPHY
554
NONOPERATIVE TREATMENT OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS
572
ENDOVASCULAR SURGICAL TECHNIQUES
583
CEREBROVASCULAR OCCLUSIVE DISEASE
588
SECTION O PEDIATRICS
703
PEDIATRIC ABDOMEN
725
PEDIATRIC GENITOURINARY SYSTEM
734
CHILDHOOD TUMORS
741
SECTION P MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
751
SECTION R GENITOURINARY SYSTEM
765
FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM
773
SECTION S SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE
783
SARCOMAS OF BONE AND SOFT TISSUE
789
RECONSTRUCTIVE PLASTIC SURGERY
798
INDEX
805
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