Summary:
Recent Advances in Surgery 32 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.

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:
1. Recognition and management of patients with inherited risk of breast cancer - Michael Douek
2. Oncoplastic breast surgery - Raghu Ram Pillarisetti, Guidubaldo Querci della Rovere
3. Novel therapies for varicose veins - Bubby Thava, Robert B. Galland
4. Management of adult extremity soft tissue sarcomas - Sanjeev Misra, Arun Chaturvedi
5. New approaches to melanoma treatment - Vasu Karri, Barry Powell
6. Update on advances in cardiac surgery - Shirish G. Ambekar, Kulvinder S. Lall
7. Penetrating cardiac injury - Michael Lewis, Jonathan Hyde, Christopher Munsch
8. Investigation and management of blunt abdominal trauma - Jan Jansen, Malcolm A. Loudon
9. Minimally invasive gastrectomy and oesophagectomy - Peter McCulloch
10. Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) - James P. Byrne, David Mahon
11. Recent advances in laparoscopic surgery - Bawantha Gamage, Tan Arulampalam
12. Radiological assessment of intestinal blood flow and function - Shahab Siddiqi, John Morlese, Atique Imam
13. Cancer surveillance in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis - Mark A. Fox, Andrew R. Moore, Safa Al-Shamma, Anthony I. Morris
14. Delivery of general paediatric surgery in the 21st century - Jonathan K. Pye, Sarah Cheslyn-Curtis
15. New techniques in plastic surgery - Christopher Khoo
16. Randomised clinical trials in surgery 2008 - Joanna Franks, 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:
Safa Al-Shamma MBChB MRCP Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK Shirish G. Ambekar MBBS MS MCh DMS FRCSEd(CTh) Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK Tan Arulampalam MD FRCS Consultant Laparoscopic Surgeon and Service Director, The ICENI Centre, Colchester General Hospital, Colchester, UK James P. Byrne BSc MBChB MD FRCS Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK Arun Chaturvedi MS MAMS Professor and Head, Department of Surgical Oncology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India Sarah Cheslyn-Curtis MBBS MS FRCS(Eng) FRCS(Gen) C

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

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