Chen: Illustrative Handbook of General Surgery

With the large number of surgical atlases in the market focusing on a variety of surgical procedures, it is almost impossible to find an area that is not comprehensively illustrated. However, almost all of these atlases are very large and serve to be “library” or “office” books, which are commonly cumbersome to transport and not readily available in the operating room. In the complex training scheme that surgical residents often encounter, they may perform a variety of surgical procedures in any given day. Furthermore, medical students doing rotations are often exposed to a variety of operations within the same time period. It is very difficult for students, residents, and even attending surgeons to go back to their office and look at a surgical atlas prior to each and every operation.

Thus, it would be much more practical to have an atlas that can be carried in the clinical jacket and be referred to immediately prior to the operation to refresh one’s memory. The Illustrated Handbook of General Surgery  by Herbert Chen was created to serve this purpose: to allow students and residents to be well prepared before going into the operating room. This portable surgical atlas includes chapters covering the anatomy and operations of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, breast, stomach, esophagus, small bowel, colon, rectum, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and hernias.

The chapters of Illustrated Handbook of General Surgery are edited by the general surgery faculty of the University ofWisconsin who practice at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. In addition, several surgeons from other prominent surgical departments around the world were invited to contribute. The detailed text and pictures are designed to provide a brief but comprehensive summary of each operation, which should facilitate further learning by medical students and residents in the operating room.

Contents

Part I Endocrine Surgery

• 1 Total Thyroidectomy and Thyroid Lobectomy
• 2 Central Neck Dissection
• 3 Modified Radical Neck Dissection
• 4 Parathyroidectomy
• 5 Open Adrenalectomy
• 6 Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy

Part II Breast Surgery

• 7 Breast Biopsy
• 8 Breast Procedures
• 9 Axillary Procedures

Part III Esophageal and Gastric Surgery

• 10 Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication
• 11 Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair
• 12 Minimally Invasive Surgical Treatment of Achalasia
• 13 Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
• 14 Esophagectomy
• 15 Gastric Resection

Part IV Small Bowel and Appendix Surgery

• 16 Small Bowel Resection
• 17 Meckel’s Diverticulum Resection
• 18 Appendectomy

Part V Colorectal Surgery

• 19 Right Hemicolectomy
• 20 Sigmoid Colectomy
• 21 Low Anterior Resection and Abdominoperineal Resection
• 22 Stomas (Colostomy and Ileostomy)

Part VI Anorectal Surgery

• 23 Lateral Internal Sphincterotomy
• 24 Cryptoglandular Disease
• 25 Pilonidal Operations
• 26 Hemorrhoids

Part VII Hernia Surgery

• 27 Abdominal Wall Hernias: Introduction
• 28 Inguinal Herniorrhaphy
• 29 Totally Extraperitoneal Preperitoneal Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair
• 30 Incisional Hernia
• 31 Umbilical Hernia

Part VIII Hepatobiliary Surgery

• 32 Hepatic Procedures
• 33 Biliary Procedures
• 34 Laparoscopic Splenectomy

Part IX Pancreatic Surgery

• 35 Pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple Procedure)
• 36 Distal Pancreatectomy
• 37 Surgical Treatment of Chronic Pancreatitis

Index 
 

Product Details

• Paperback: 343 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (January 22, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1848820887
• ISBN-13: 978-1848820883
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches 

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