Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice

Praise for previous editions: "Surgeons will enter the new millenium with a textbook of surgery that is the newest, most comprehensive, single-volume work published to date."--JAMA This comprehensive new edition provides optimal preparation for all-level surgical examinations, and provides completely updated reviews of the latest scientific advances that improve surgical understanding and clinical management. The first section focuses on basic science and the second section focuses on the clinical science of surgery. Many new contributors author the chapters and nearly 50% are rewritten. New features include a chapter on Outcomes Based Surgery and a section on Magnetic Resonance Angiography. Over 2,400 illustrations and over 500 tables support the text. A CD-ROM version is included with the textbook and contains over 2,000 review questions.Greenfield, Lazar J. is the author of 'Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice' with ISBN 9780781733274 and ISBN 0781733278.