General surgery residency training can lead to a rewarding career in general surgery and serve as the foundation for careers in several surgical subspecialties. It offers broad-based training with exposure to the cognitive and technical aspects of several surgical specialties and prepares graduating residents for a wide range of career paths. This career development resource discusses the train...

General surgery encompasses many organ systems. This chapter, organized broadly by organ systems, highlights issues concerning the surgical care of elderly patients and reviews current understanding of specific disease states, covering recent research on such topics as the epidemiology, evaluation, management, and outcomes for each condition. Disorders of several organ systems that are also oft...

The International Registry of Lung Metastases* Writing Committee: Ugo Pastorino, MD Marc Buyse, ScD Godehard Friedel, MD Robert J. Ginsberg, MD Philippe Girard, MD Peter Goldstraw, MD Michael Johnston, MD Patricia McCormack, MD Harvey Pass, MD Joe B. Putnam, Jr., MD Objectives: The International Registry of Lung Metastases was established in 1991 to assess the long-term results of pulmonary lne...

INTRODUCTION Pre-operative limb preparation (PLP) usually involves lifting the limb and holding it in a fixed ‘static’ posture for several minutes. This is hazardous to theatre staff. Furthermore, ‘painting’ the limb can be time consuming and difficult areas such as between toes and fingers may remain unsterile. We demonstrate the time efficiency and asepsis achieved using the ‘sterile bag’ pre...

This book provides a good tool for medical students. It enable students to grasp the basic principles of clinical surgery. This book covers common surgical specialties with the most commonly encountered scenarios in their future career. Each chapter was presented in a systematic way, and was configured with starter questions, cases scenario, core sciences, history, examination and investigation...