• Encompasses both general surgery and surgical subspecialties―helping readers to directly manage a broad range of problems, rather than referring them to specialists.
• Emphasizes information that frequently appears on board exams.

• Offers brand-new coverage of special issues in geriatric surgery · issues in surgical patients with HIV · obesity surgery · groin hernia · deep vein thrombosis · organ donation · blunt abdominal pediatric trauma · inguinal and scrotal conditions in children · anal fissure · and much more.
• Presents greatly expanded information on acute myocardial infarction and angina.
• Features completely new sections on Head & Neck and Trauma, collecting all of the topics relevant to these subspecialties together for greater ease of reference.
• Includes contributions from a new Editor―Robert C. McIntyre, MD―as well as many new authors, to ensure that the book covers the material that surgeons need to know today.

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