THE 'GOLDEN JUBILEE' EDITION OF A CLASSIC TEXTBOOK, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1965 General Surgery Lecture Notes continues to be an invaluable, appealing and approachable resource for thousands of medical students and surgical trainees throughout the world.

Preface iv Acknowledgements v Abbreviations vi The anytime anywhere textbook viii About the companion website x 1 Surgical strategy 1 2 Fluid and nutrition management 5 3 Preoperative assessment 11 4 Postoperative complications 16 5 Acute infections 27 6 Tumours 32 7 Shock 38 8 Burns 43 9 The skin and its adnexae 49 10 The chest and lungs 61 11 The heart and thoracic aorta 70 12 Arterial disease 79 13 Venous disorders of the lower limb 97 14 The brain and meninges 104 15 Head injury 113 16 The spine 126 17 Peripheral nerve injuries 137 18 The oral cavity 143 19 The salivary glands 153 20 The oesophagus 157 21 The stomach and duodenum 166 22 Mechanical intestinal obstruction 183 23 Paralytic ileus 193 24 The small intestine 196 25 Acute appendicitis 201 26 The colon 206 27 The rectum and anal canal 220 28 Peritonitis 233 29 Hernia 239 30 The liver 250 31 The gallbladder and bile ducts 266 32 The pancreas 276 33 The spleen 289 34 The lymph nodes and lymphatics 292 35 The breast 295 36 The neck 310 37 The thyroid 313 38 The parathyroids 325 39 The thymus 330 40 The adrenal glands 332 41 The kidney and ureter 339 42 The bladder 356 43 The prostate 361 44 The male urethra 370 45 The penis 373 46 The testis and scrotum 377 47 Transplantation surgery 387 Index 394

THE 'GOLDEN JUBILEE' EDITION OF A CLASSIC TEXTBOOK, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1965 General Surgery Lecture Notes continues to be an invaluable, appealing and approachable resource for thousands of medical students and surgical trainees throughout the world. This comprehensive guide focuses on the fundamentals of general surgery, and systematically covers all the clinical surgical problems that a student may encounter and about which they need to know. Fully revised and updated to reflect the rapid changes which are taking place in surgical practice, this 50th anniversary edition: Includes principles of treatment written at student level to aid understandingFeatures full colour illustrations throughoutIncludes electronic access to a range of extra material including case studies, images and photographs, and biographiesIncludes free access to the Wiley E-TextIs a perfect review text for medical students as well as junior surgeons taking the MRCS examination and other postgraduate surgical examinations Trusted by generations of medical students, the clinical emphasis of General Surgery Lecture Notes makes this an essential purchase for all those wishing to learn more about general surgery.