Main description:

Surgery is a constantly evolving specialty in medicine - research and technological advances have made surgical procedures safer and more effective and offer shorter recovery times.

Recent Advances in Surgery 40 is the latest volume in the recognised series reviewing current topics in general surgery and its major subspecialties.

Divided into eight sections, the book begins with topics of general interest to surgeons, and surgical training. The following sections cover subspecialty surgeries including transplant, vascular, head and neck, breast, and abdominal. The final section reviews recent clinical trials.

With contributions from recognised experts, many from the UK, this new volume covers all the latest developments in surgery, providing excellent revision material for professional examinations, and helping consultant surgeons keep up to date across the specialty.

Key points

Latest volume in series bringing surgeons and trainees up to date with the latest advances in general surgery and its subspecialties
Features discussion on surgical training
Includes review of recent randomised clinical trials
Recognised editor and author team, based mainly in the UK

Contents:

Section 1: Surgery in general

Facemasks in the prevention of infection in surgery
Quality improvement in surgery
Paediatric surgery in low- and middle-income countries

Section 2: Surgical training

Enhancing surgical training through integration of e-learning
Excellence versus competence in surgical training

Section 3: Transplant surgery

Organ donation: ethical issues of consent and organ trade and strategies to increase donor numbers

Section 4: Vascular surgery

Long-term outcomes of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Section 5: Head and neck surgery

Osteonecrosis of the jaw: An iatrogenic condition in the 21st century
Minimally invasive thyroidectomy

Section 6: Breast surgery

Partial breast irradiation for cancer
Evolving trends in localisation techniques in breast surgery
Advances in genetic risk of breast cancer

Section 7: Abdominal surgery

Para-oesophageal hernias
Idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
Recent advances in complete mesocolic excision surgery for colon cancer

Section 8: Clinical trials

Major randomized controlled trials in surgery in the last five years