General Surgery: Principles and International Practice

by Bland, Kirby I.

• ISBN13: 9781846288326
• ISBN10: 1846288320
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER

Summary

General Surgery: Principles and International Practice is organized into Ten Sections, each representing an important branch of surgical science. It aims to provide the medical student, general surgical resident or active practitioner with an illustrative, instructive and comprehensive textbook depicting the rationale for the basic operative principles mandated by state-of-the-art surgical therapy. The reader can rapidly review the subject matter in a three-to-five page summary with contemporary bibliography in each chapter and a "Pearls and Pitfalls" section summarizing the 'impact', concerns and outcomes of surgical management. Amply supported by line drawings and photographs, algorithms and anatomical depictions, this provides the student of diseases, as well as those studying for Board examinations, a text that has rapidly assimilated data into the most contemporary applications of surgical therapy.

Author Biography

Dr Kirby I. Bland is Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman, the Department of Surgery and Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has published over 400 journal articles and is Primary Editor of 8 books. His past appointments include President of the Society of Surgical Oncology (1996/97) and Society of Surgical Chairs (2001) and President of the Association for Academic Surgery.Dr. Michael G. Sarr is Chief of Surgery at the Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota. He is a member of the American Motility Society, American Physiological Society, and most of the major surgical societies. He has published over 200 journal articles and is a co-editor of the new Mayo Clinic Gastrointestinal Surgery book just published by Saunders.

Table of Contents

Thyroid

Thyroid Embryology, Anatomy, and Physiology: A Review for the Surgeon

The Assessment of Thyroid Nodules

Thyroid: Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy

Thyroid Imaging

Multinodular Goitre

Thyrotoxicosis and Thyroiditis: Causes, Investigation, and Management

Molecular Biology of Thyroid Cancer

Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: An Overview and the Chernobyl Effect

Poorly Differentiated and Undifferentiated Thyroid Cancer

Post-Operative Management of Well Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Medullary Thyroid Cancer

Technique of Thyroidectomy

Lymph Node Dissection in Thyroid Cancer

Management of the Laryngeal Nerves and Voice

Parathyroid

Embryology, Anatomy, and Physiology of the Parathyroid Glands

Presentation and Diagnosis of Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Parathyoid Localization and Imaging

Intraoperative PTH Monitoring

Focused Parathyroidectomy

Parathyroid: Bilateral Neck Exploration

Reoperative Parathyroid Surgery

Management of Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism

Parathyroid Carcinoma

Adrenal

Adrenal Embryology, Anatomy, and Physiology

Adrenal Imaging

Adrenal Venous Sampling

Primary Hyperaldosteronism

CushingG++s Disease and Syndrome

Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma

Adrenocortical Carcinoma

Incidentaloma

Adrenal Metastases and Rare Adrenal Tumors

Technique of Open and Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy

Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Adrenalectomy

Pancreas

Pancreas: Embryology, Anatomy, and Physiology

Pancreatic Imaging: The Value for Surgery of Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Tumors

Diagnosis and Management of Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia

Gastrinoma

Rare Functioning Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors

Laparoscopic Radiofrequency Ablation of Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors in the Liver

Pancreatic Incidentaloma

Technique of Pancreatic Resection

Familial Endocrine Conditions

Familial Endocrine Conditions

Carcinoid

Carcinoid: Presentation and Diagnosis, Surgical Management

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