PROGRESS IN CLINICAL SURGERY

The objectives in the preparation of Series III of progress in the field of Clinical Surgery have been the same as in the preparation of Series I and II. Once again the main purpose has been to produce a volume of manageable length highlighting some of the surgical topics which have, for one reason or another, received special study during the last few years, and in particular those where recent work has led to some major reappraisal. This volume is intended primarily to help the postgraduate surgical student working for his final F.R.C.S. [Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, in the United Kingdom] examination and the younger surgeon with a recent consultant appointment, and for this reason the emphasis has been placed upon practical general surgery rather than upon surgical research, though naturally it is through the application of surgical research to clinical surgery that progress is made. The final selection of twenty surgical topics represents the work of various contributors. Includes 129 illustrations.