Key Features

•Understand the underlying science and its clinical application to make informed surgical decisions and achieve optimal outcomes.

•Overcome tough challenges, manage unusual situations, and avoid complications with the most trusted advice in your field.

•Get the depth of coverage you need in an easily accessible, single volume organized by organ and along traditional lines beginning with principles common to surgical specialties including fluid and electrolyte management, metabolic support, and wound healing. Subsequent sections review the management of injury, transplantation, oncology, breast, endocrine, and abdominal procedures.

•Explore topics encountered by general surgery residents in training as well as in-depth coverage of subspecialty areas including head and neck, thoracic, vascular, urology, neurosurgery, pediatrics, and gynecology.

•Visually grasp and retain difficult concepts thanks to a full-color design featuring an abundance of illustrations, intraoperative photographs, video clips and tables as well as more schematic diagrams that facilitate the comprehension of surgical techniques and procedures.


Presents key content important to the training and practice of contemporary general surgery in a readable single volume.

Clinically focused and relevant throughout and balances what the user needs to know about basic science with clinical practice.

Includes key data on surgical outcomes to better inform clinical decision-making.

Full-color design facilitates the comprehension of surgical techniques and procedures.

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New and updated content on the latest surgical perspectives and approaches to therapy.

Coverage of the latest innovations in minimally invasive surgery and percutaneous devices.

Coverage of surgical subspecialty areas is more sharply focused on topics that are encountered by general surgery residents in the course of their general surgery training program.

More schematic diagrams to summarize information and facilitate understanding.