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Ellis and Calne's Lecture Notes in General Surgery

Series: Lecture Notes
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Ellis and Calne's Lecture Notes in General Surgery offers a thorough overview of essential general surgery principles and clinical problems faced by medical students and trainee doctors. It covers key topics such as surgical strategy, fluid and nutrition management, trauma, burns, tumours, and a wide range of organ-specific surgeries. Supplemented by colour illustrations and electronic access to case studies, radiological images, and biographies, it emphasises practical treatment guidance and clinical relevance.
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This book is ideal for medical students and junior surgeons seeking a clear, reliable reference in general surgery. It is especially suitable for those preparing for the MRCS examination or wishing to strengthen their clinical understanding in surgical practice.

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Ellis and Calne’s Lecture Notes in General Surgery is a comprehensive guide that focuses on the fundamentals of general surgery while systematically covering all the clinical surgical problems that a student or doctor in training may encounter and about which they need to know.

The text includes principles of treatment that have been written at a level to inform the medical student and doctor in training. The text features colour illustrations throughout and includes electronic access to a wide range of extra material including case studies, radiological and clinical images, and biographies.

Sample topics discussed in Ellis and Calne’s Lecture Notes in General Surgery include:

  • Surgical strategy, human factors in surgery, fluid and nutrition management, preoperative assessment, postoperative complications, acute infections, tumours, and shock
  • Trauma surgery, burns, the skin and its adnexae, arterial disease, the heart and thoracic aorta, and the chest and lungs
  • The brain and meninges, head injury, the spine, peripheral nerve injuries, the oral cavity and the salivary glands
  • The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum, the surgery of obesity, the small intestine, the appendix, the colon, and the rectum and anal canal
  • The kidney, ureter, bladder, testes and prostate

Trusted by generations of medical students, including the current authors, the clinical emphasis of Ellis and Calne’s Lecture Notes in General Surgery makes this an essential reference for all those wishing to learn more about general surgery. It is also a perfect revision text for medical students and junior surgeons taking the MRCS examination.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119862482

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 14th edition

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 1021g

Pages: 528

About the Author

Christopher Watson, MD BChir FRCS, Professor of Transplantation and Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Justin Davies, MA MChir FRCS FEBS, The department of Surgery, Addenbrooke Hospital, Cambridge University, UK.

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