Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence

Much anticipated, the Second Edition of Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence features fully revised and updated information on the evidence-based practice of surgery, including significant new sections on trauma and critical care and the often challenging surgical care of unique populations, including elderly, pediatric, immunocompromised, and obese patients as well as timely new chapters on the pre- and post-operative care of the cardiac surgery patient, intestinal transplantation, surgical infections, the fundamentals of cancer genetics and proteomics. Also new to this edition are discussions of electrosurgical instruments, robotics, imaging modalities, and other emerging technologies influencing the modern practice of surgery. Clinically focused sections in gastrointestinal, vascular, cardiothoracic, transplant, and cancer surgery enable the surgeon to make decisions based upon the most relevant data in modern surgical practice. The text is enhanced by more than 1,000 illustrations and hundreds of the signature evidence-based tables that made the first edition of SURGERY an instant classic.

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