Principles and Practice of Surgery

This title is the surgical companion textbook to the international bestseller Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine. A comprehensive textbook for the surgical student and trainee, It guides the reader through key core surgical topics which are encountered throughout an integrated medical curriculum as well as in subsequent clinical practice. Although sharing the same format and style as Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine, this text is complete in itself, thus enabling the student to appreciate both the medical and surgical implications of diseases encountered in surgical wards.

• A five-section textbook of surgical principles and regional clinical surgery.
• Superbly presented with line drawings, high quality radiographic images and colour photographs.
• Presented in similar form to its sister textbook Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine.
• Full online text version as part of Student Consult.

• Now presented in full colour throughout
• New page size and design to complement Davidson
• Online website of full text on Student Consult
• New chapter on the principles of orthopaedics and trauma
• New colour photographs and radiology throughout the book

James Garden is the series editor to the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series of seven volumes for Saunders. He is the author of Colour Atlasof Surgical Diagnosis (Mosby) and is a contributor to the current Third Edition of Principles & Practice of Surgery.

Andrew Bradbury is also a contributor to Macleod's Clinical Examination 10E. Other writing interests as yet unknown.

John Forsythe is the author of the Transplantation volume in the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series.