Pocket Tutor Surface Anatomy (2^nd Ed.) Second Edition Pocket Tutor Series

Titles in the Pocket Tutor series give practical guidance at a highly-affordable price on subjects that medical students, foundation doctors and a range of other practitioners need help with ?on the go?.

The highly-structured, bite-size content helps novices combat the fear factor associated with day-to-day clinical training, and provides a handy reference that students and junior doctors can carry with them at all times.   

Pocket Tutor Surface Anatomy is an indispensable guide to a subject that is increasingly important on today?s medical courses and a crucial preamble to the study of clinical skills and procedures, indeed to the study of all medicine and surgery.

Key Features:

• Logical, sequential content: introduction to the principles of living anatomy, then chapters devoted to individual regions, with each sub-region illustrated by specially commissioned photographs featuring ghosted underlying structures
• Each region (e.g. Upper Limb) described in a consistent manner: Introduction & Core Features which focuses on Arteries & Veins, Nerves & Dermatomes and Core Landmarks; then for each subregion (e.g. Shoulder & Arm) Bones Joints & Ligaments, Muscles Tendons & Regions, and Neurovascular & Lymph

Changes to second edition:

• New chapter on paediatric surface anatomy highlights the anatomical differences in children and how they vary during development
• 15+ new and improved radiological images match surface markings to underlying structures
• More sites of nerve injury, surgical incision lines and normal/pathological variation added to surface anatomy photos correlate anatomical landmarks to clinical practice
• Chapters reordered from head to toe to provide a more logical and accessible ordering of content

Previous edition (9781907816178) published 2012.

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 The anatomical position and planes

1.2 Anatomical movements:

1.3 Sensory innervation

Chapter 2 Head and neck

2.1 Bones and bony landmarks

2.2 Intracranial structures

2.3 Muscles of the head and face

2.4 Nose, nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses

2.5 Nerves

2.6 Viscera

2.7 Oral cavity and oral vestibule

2.8 Neck

2.9 Neurovasculature

2.10 Viscera

2.11 Lymphatics

Chapter 3 Thorax

3.1 Bony landmarks, joints and cartilages

3.2 Muscles

3.3 Lines and folds

3.4 Mediastinum

3.5 Neurovasculature and lymphatics

3.6 Viscera

Chapter 4 Upper limb

4.1 Pectoral girdle, shoulder and arm

4.2 Elbow, cubital fossa and forearm

4.3 Wrist and hand

Chapter 5 The vertebral column and back

5.1 Vertebral column

5.2 Muscles

Chapter 6 Abdomen

6.1 Bony landmarks, joints and ligaments

6.2 Reference planes and regions

6.3 Muscles, tendons and aponeuroses

6.4 Inguinal canal

6.5 Neurovasculature and lymphatics

6.6 Surgical incisions of the abdominal wall

6.7 Viscera

Chapter 7 Pelvis and perineum

7.1 Bones, joints and ligaments

7.2 Perineum

7.3 Female

7.4 Male

7.5 Perineal neurovasculature

Chapter 8 Lower limb

8.1 Pelvic girdle, gluteal region and thigh

8.2 Knee, popliteal fossa and leg

8.3 Ankle and foot

Chapter 9 Surface anatomy in children

9.1 Growth and proportions

9.2 Thorax

9.3 Respiratory system

9.4 Cardiovascular system

9.5 Abdominal wall and GI tract

9.6 Genitourinary system

9.7 Musculoskeletal system

9.8 Nervous system

9.9 Skin and subcutaneous tissue

Richard Tunstall BMedSci (Hons) PhD FHEA
Head of Clinical Anatomy and Imaging, MBChB Admissions Lead, Warwick Medical School, Director of Clinical Anatomy, West Midlands Surgical Training Centre, UHCW Hospital, Coventry, UK

Ali Mirjalili MD PhD PGDipSurgAnat PGCertCPU PGDipSci
Senior Lecturer, Anatomy and Medical Imaging Department, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand