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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Contributors
• International Advisory Panel
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Section 1: General Issues
• Chapter 1: Surgery – what it is and what a surgeon does
• Chapter 2: Organisation of surgical services
• Chapter 3: Emergency medicine
• Chapter 4: Investigation of the surgical patient
• Chapter 5: The operation
• Chapter 6: Anaesthesia and pain control
• Chapter 7: Perioperative management and postoperative complications
• Chapter 8: Wound healing and management
• Chapter 9: Surgical infection
• Chapter 10: The seriously ill and injured patient
• Chapter 11: Practical procedures
• Chapter 12: Principles of surgical oncology
• Chapter 13: Organ transplantation
• Section 2: Regional Surgery
• Chapter 14: The neck and upper aerodigestive tract
• Chapter 15: Ear and nose
• Chapter 16: Chest and lungs
• Chapter 17: Cardiac surgery
• Chapter 18: Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
• Chapter 19: Bariatric surgery
• Chapter 20: Liver and biliary tree
• Chapter 21: The spleen
• Chapter 22: The pancreas
• Chapter 23: Acute abdominal conditions
• Chapter 24: Small-bowel disease and intestinal obstruction
• Chapter 25: Large bowel, including appendix
• Chapter 26: Anal and related disorders
• Chapter 27: Hernia
• Chapter 28: Breast disease
• Chapter 29: Arterial disease
• Chapter 30: Venous and lymphatic disorders
• Section 3: Surgical Specialties
• Chapter 31: Neurosurgery
• Chapter 32: Surgery of the endocrine glands
• Chapter 33: Urology
• Chapter 34: Principles of orthopaedics
• Chapter 35: Principles of management of fractures, spinal injuries and peripheral nerve
• Chapter 36: Principles of paediatric surgery
• Chapter 37: Ophthalmology in clinical surgery
• Chapter 38: Principles of plastic surgery
• Chapter 39: Skin disorders
• Chapter 40: Surgery in the developing world
• Index
• Instructions for online access