Essentials Of Surgery - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0721653340 ISBN 13: 9780721653341

Publisher: Saunder

Synopsis

This 2nd Edition presents the key features necessary for basic surgical practice. Focusing on the "essential" problems, it presents a simplified approach to understanding surgical care. The basic and clinical principles including the physiologic, pathologic, biologic, chemical, immunologic, and pharmacologic aspects of various surgical disorders are presented. Topics new to this edition include melanoma, diagnostic theracoscopy, surgical aspects of diabetes mellitus, portal hypertension, and more.

New, shorter length of book pares information to the essentials to keep content straightforward and manageable

Recognized authorities in the field (including 54 new contributors) provide master guidance in one source

13 new chapters, such as Melanoma and Portal Hypertension, broaden the text's scope to provide students with comprehensive, current information

Logical organization follows the anatomic, physiologic, pathologic, biologic, chemical, immunologic, and pharmacologic features of surgical disorders to help underscore the important relationship between the basic sciences in medicine and their clinical counterparts

Carefully selected figures and illustrations skillfully demonstrate text material to simplify concepts and make them accessible

Companion text Andreoli et al.: CECIL ESSENTIALS OF MEDICINE and Behrman and Kliegman: NELSON ESSENTIALS OF PEDIATRICS complete a triad developed for medical students to fulfill curricular course requirements

Edition details

• Publisher: Saunder
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0721653340
• ISBN 13: 9780721653341
• Binding: Paperback