Surgery Basic Science & Clinical Evidence

SURGERY: BASIC SCIENCE and CLINICAL EVIDENCE provides an up-to-the-minute, clinically oriented, and encyclopedic textbook of general surgery for all surgical residents, general surgeons, and medical students to prepare for inservice, the general surgery board examination, and recertification.An up-to-the-minute, clinically oriented, and encyclopedic textbook of general surgery for all surgical residents, general surgeons, and medical students. Divided into eight sections, the text brings together the emerging leaders in surgery to concisely present and synthesize the key issues in the different surgical disciplines. Each chapter presents anatomy, physiology and associated scientific development, disease etiology and prevention, appropriate diagnostic procedures, treatment of benign and malignant disease, and well illustrated, technical discussion of how-to-do surgery. Color-coded tables summarize the evidence currently available for a wide variety of surgical treatment options. The text is augmented by a specially comisioned art program with more than 1000 illustrations to clearly depict surgical techniques. A CD-ROM packaged with the text provides a hypertext link to PubMed for every reference - invaluable for research.'This book brings a fresh approach to the already strong group of comprehensive textbooks in general surgery. ...basic science topics are comprehensively discussed by first-rate, mostly mid-career academic surgical scientists... The text is clearly written, and the chapters are well illustrated. There is also a unique feature: several hundred evidence-based tables. ...This book will appeal to general surgical residents and medical students. The practicing surgeon will also find the book valuable as a source of information for everyday practice and for help with unusual cases.' The New England Journal of Medicine 'The text is generally easy to read, an the figures are clear and helpful. Especially helpful is a front-of-the-book index of the evidence-based tables contained in each chapter. ...These tables - more than 200 - are the book major strength. ...In summary, the ambitious under-taking of creating an evidence-based textbook of surgery has largely succeeded, and I heartily recommend it. Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence has something for everyone, from the newest surgical resident to the established surgeon in practice.' Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), June 2001 System requirements: Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher or Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher and Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or higher. These are browser requirements, as the CD launches your browser on to the internet. The CD is cross-plattform and can be used with PC or MAC machines.