Summary:
Recent Advances in Surgery 25 is the latest volume in the successful and well-established Recent Advances series. This title is updated annually, covering the latest trends within surgery and reflecting any changes to the professional examinations for surgeons.

Recent Advances in Surgery 25 has contributions on important topics relevant to the management of all surgical patients, providing in-depth reviews of important advancing areas in surgical subspecialties. This wide scope makes this book an ideal choice for the busy consultant as well as an essential read for students of surgery at all levels.

Over 30 contributors, who are recognized experts in their particular field, provide in-depth reviews of important topics relevant to the management of all surgical patients and advancing areas in surgical subspecialties. Suitable for experienced medical professionals, as well as students and candidates of the MRCS/AFRCS, this edition reviews the latest trends within surgery and forms a useful update of general surgery for candidates of the Intercollegiate examination.

• Reviews trends in current practice and advances within the surgical specialties

• Essential reading to help doctors to keep abreast of important developments in the subject

• Forms a useful update of general surgery for candidates of the MRCS/AFRCS examinations

• Updated annually with entirely new contents written by experts in their field

• 13 chapters providing a comprehensive update of key topics in surgery

Table of Contents:
SURGERY IN GENERAL
1. Resuscitation and trauma surgery - Douglas M.G. Bowley, James M. Ryan
2. Management of wounds - D.J. Leaper, K.G. Harding, C.J. Phillips
3. Postoperative pain control - Malvena E. Stuart Taylor
Peri-operative nutritional support - Mike Stroud
Genes and the surgeon - Rachel M. Bright-Thomas
GASTROINTESTINAL SPHINCTER DISORDERS
3. The role of botulinum toxin in gastrointestinal surgery - A.G. Acheson, N. Griffin, J.H. Scholefield
UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL
4. Oral carcinoma - Misra, A. Chaturvedi, N.C. Misra
5. Current developments in the non-surgical management of pancreatic cancer - A.D. Gilliam, S.A. Watson, I.J. Beckingham
6. Primary tumours of the liver - J.N. Primrose
LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL
7. Large bowel obstruction - Meheshinder Singh, John R.T. Monson
8. Local recurrence of rectal cancer - Ayo Oshowo, Irving Taylor
9. Benign anal disease - K.P. Nugent
VASCULAR
10. Angioplasty for critical limb ischaemia - Jonathan D. Beard, Peter A. Gaines
BREAST/ONCOLOGY
11. The clinical application of PET in surgical oncology - Tan Arulampalam, Irving Taylor
12. Adjuvant treatment in breast cancer - J. Michael Dixon
OVERVIEW
13. Recent randomised controlled trials in general surgery - Michael Douek, Irving Taylor

About the Author(s):

Irving Taylor MD ChM FRCS FMedSci FRCPS(Glas) FHEA
Vice-Dean and Director of Clinical Studies Professor of Surgery, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, University College London, London, UK

Colin D. Johnson MChir FRCS
Reader and Consultant Surgeon, University Surgical Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK

Contributors:
A.G. Acheson MB BCh FRCS Specialist Registrar in General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK Tan Arulampalam FRCS Department of Surgery and Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Middlesex Hospital, London, UK Jonathan D. Beard Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Sheffield Vascular Institute, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK I.J. Beckingham Section of Surgery (Gastrointestinal Surgery), Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK Douglas M.G. Bowley FRCS Fellow in Trauma Surgery, Trauma Unit, Johannesburg Hospital, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa; Specialist Registar in General Surgery, Ministry of Defence, UK; and Honorary Lecturer, Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand Medica

Readership:
Trainees undertaking the MRCS/AFRCS examination and trainees in surgery

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