Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence

An up-to-the-minute, clinically oriented, and encyclopedic textbook of general surgery for all surgical residents, general surgeons, and medical students. Divided into eight sections, the text brings together the emerging leaders in surgery to concisely present and synthesize the key issues in the different surgical disciplines. Each chapter presents anatomy, physiology and associated scientific development, disease etiology and prevention, appropriate diagnostic procedures, treatment of benign and malignant disease, and well illustrated, technical discussion of how-to-do surgery. Color-coded tables summarize the evidence currently available for a wide variety of surgical treatment options. The text is augmented by a specially comisioned art program with more than 1000 illustrations to clearly depict surgical techniques. A CD-ROM packaged with the text provides a hypertext link to PubMed for every reference - invaluable for research.

About the Editors:
Distinguished Editorial Board:
Jeffrey A. Norton, M.D.
Professor and Vice-Chairman of Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Chief of Surgery, San Francisco
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Head, Laboratory of Biological Therapy
San Francisco, California

R. Randal Bollinger, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Division of General Surgery
Professor of Surgery
Professor of Immunology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

Alfred E. Chang, M.D.
Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology
Hugh Cabot Professor of Surgery
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Stephen F. Lowry, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery
UMDNJ
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Sean J. Mulvihill, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of General Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Harvey I. Pass, M.D.
Professor of Surgery and Oncology
Chief, Thoracic Oncology
Karmanos Cancer Institute,
Wayne State University
Harper Hospital
Detroit, Michigan

Robert W. Thompson, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Cell Biology & Physiology
Washington University School
of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri