Recent advances: General surgery

Recent Advances in Surgery ’ ”

The newer developments in the field of general surgery of recent years have received added impetus from the present war conditions. These developments may be conveniently divided into two groups, first, operative surgery and second, and perhaps more important, preoperative and postoperative management of patients. It is in the latter group that war medicine and surgery have made themselves felt...

Recent Advances in Surgery

Recent advances in surgery

Recent Advances in Orthopædic Surgery

Recent advances in knee surgery.

In this review the evidence for the management of patients with patellofemoral disorders is presented confined to anterior knee pain and patellar dislocation (excluding patellofemoral arthritis). Patients present along a spectrum of these two problems and are best managed with both problems considered. The key to managing these patients is by improving muscle function, the patient losing weight...