Summary:
Recent Advances in Surgery 26 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 26 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.

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.

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.

• 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

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

Table of Contents:
BASIC SCIENCE
1. Fluid resuscitation and pre-optimisation before abdominal surgery - Dominic Errington, Simon V. Baudouin
2. Recognition and significance of cancer cells in the circulation - Timothy K. McCullough, Timothy G. Allen-Mersh
3. Matrix metalloproteinases: their potential clinical role - Simon R. Bramhall
4. Physiological concepts in the treatment of faecal incontinence including sacral nerve stimulation - Carolynne Vaizey
GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY
5. Postoperative complications following oesophagectomy - Majid Hashemi
6. Endoscopic treatment of bleeding duodenal ulcers and assessment of risk - Timothy A. Rockall
7. Management of pseudomyxoma peritonei - Brendan J. Moran
8. Risk assessment and classification in septic diverticular disease - Charles H. Knowles, Peter J. Lunniss
9. Screening for colorectal cancer - Wendy Atkin, John Northover
VASCULAR SURGERY
10. Management of recurrent varicose veins - Simon G. Darke
11. Management of mycotic aortic aneurysms - Constantinos Kyriakides, John H.N. Wolfe
12. Recent advances in vascular trauma - Karim Brophy, Eddie Chaloner, Matthew Mattson
BREAST SURGERY
13. Intra-operative radiotherapy for breast cancer - Jayant S. Vaidya
14. Recent developments in the endocrine therapy of early breast cancer - Michael Baum, Richard Sainsbury
GENERAL SURGERY
15. Comparative surgical audit - Richard J. Sutton, Sanjeev Sarin
16. Recent randomised controlled trials in general surgery - Michael Douek, Irving Taylor
Index

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:
Timothy G. Allen-Mersh BSc MD FRCS Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Imperial College School of Science, Technology and Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK Wendy Atkin MPH PhD Deputy Director, Colorectal Cancer Unit, Cancer Research UK; and Honorary Reader in Epidemiology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, UK Simon V. Baudouin MBBS MD FRCP Senior Lecturer, University Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Michael Baum MD ChM FRCS Professor of Surgery, University College London, London, UK Simon R. Bramhall MD FRCS Consultant Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, Liver Unit, The Queen Eliza

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

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