Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice - Hardcover

 
9780397511211: Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice

Synopsis

For surgical residents and clinical practitioners, this text balances scientific principles with clinical practice. The book begins with a section devoted to basic topics such as biology, metabolism, inflammation, wound healing and oncology. Other chapters cover organ systems and give details of their normal anatomy and physiology. The contributors place emphasis upon modern approaches to diagnosis and management along with descriptions of surgical techniques.

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Review

"Surgeons will enter the new millenium with a textbook of surgery that is the newest, most comprehensive, single-volume work published to date." - JAMA

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