Current surgical diagnosis & treatment

Author(s)

• Way, Lawrence W.
• Doherty, Gerard M.

Bibliographic Information

Current surgical diagnosis & treatment

edited by Lawrence W. Way and Gerard M. Doherty

（A Lange medical book）

Lange Medical Books/McGraw-Hill, c2003

11th ed

Other Title

Current surgical diagnosis and treatment

Surgical diagnosis & treatment

Surgical diagnosis and treatment

Note

"A Lange medical book."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment covers over 1,000 diseases and disorders managed by surgeons. It encompasses general surgery and the surgical subspecialties and emphasizes quick recall of major diagnostic features and succinct descriptions of disease processes. This major revision and updating features a new chapter on "The Metabolic & Neuroendocrine Responses to Trauma & Operations," the latest on minimally invasive surgical techniques, and particularly extensive changes to chapters on oncology, colon and rectal surgery, plastic surgery, vascular surgery, and cardiothoracic surgery.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents1. Approach to the Surgical Patient 2. Preoperative Care 3. Postoperative Care 4. Postoperative Complications 5. Special Medical Problems in Surgical Patients 6. Legal Medicine for the Surgeon 7. Wound Healing 8. The Metabolic & Neuroendocrine Responses to Trauma & Operations 9. Inflammation, Infection, & Antibiotics 10. Fluid & Electrolyte Management 11. Surgical Metabolism & Nutrition 12. Anesthesia 13. Shock & Acute Pulmonary Failure in Surgical Patients 14. Management of the Injured Patient 15. Burns & Other Thermal Injuries 16. Head & Neck Tumors 17. Thyroid & Parathyroid 18. Breast 19. Thoracic Wall, Pleura, Mediastinum, & Lung 20. The Heart: I. Acquired Diseases The Heart: II. Congenital Heart Disease 21. Esophagus & Diaphragm 22. The Acute Abdomen 23. Peritoneal Cavity 24. Stomach & Duodenum 25. Liver & Portal Venous System 26. Biliary Tract 27. Pancreas 28. Spleen 29. Appendix 30. Small Intestine 31. Large Intestine 32. Anorectum 33. Hernias & Other Lesions of the Abdominal Wall 34. Adrenals 35. Arteries 36. Amputation 37. Veins & Lymphatics 38. Neurosurgery & Surgery of the Pituitary 39. Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery 40. The Eye & Ocular Adnexa 41. Urology 42. Gynecology 43. Orthopedics 44. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 45. Hand Surgery 46. Pediatric Surgery 47. Oncology 48. Organ Transplantation

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Details

• NCID: BA59074500
• ISBN:
  • 0838514561
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 1468 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • MESH : Diagnostic Techniques, Surgical -- Handbooks
  • MESH : Surgical Procedures, Operative -- Handbooks
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03674274