Recent Advances in Surgery 40, Vol. 40

Surgery is a constantly evolving specialty in medicine ? research and technological advances have made surgical procedures safer and more effective and offer shorter recovery times.

Recent Advances in Surgery 40 is the latest volume in the recognised series reviewing current topics in general surgery and its major subspecialties.

Divided into eight sections, the book begins with topics of general interest to surgeons, and surgical training. The following sections cover subspecialty surgeries including transplant, vascular, head and neck, breast, and abdominal. The final section reviews recent clinical trials.

With contributions from recognised experts, many from the UK, this new volume covers all the latest developments in surgery, providing excellent revision material for professional examinations, and helping consultant surgeons keep up to date across the specialty.

Key points

• Latest volume in series bringing surgeons and trainees up to date with the latest advances in general surgery and its subspecialties
• Features discussion on surgical training
• Includes review of recent randomised clinical trials
• Recognised editor and author team, based mainly in the UK

Section 1: Surgery in general

1. Facemasks in the prevention of infection in surgery
2. Quality improvement in surgery
3. Paediatric surgery in low- and middle-income countries

Section 2: Surgical training

4. Enhancing surgical training through integration of e-learning
5. Excellence versus competence in surgical training

Section 3: Transplant surgery

6. Organ donation: ethical issues of consent and organ trade and strategies to increase donor numbers

Section 4: Vascular surgery

7. Long-term outcomes of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Section 5: Head and neck surgery

8. Osteonecrosis of the jaw: An iatrogenic condition in the 21st century
9. Minimally invasive thyroidectomy

Section 6: Breast surgery

10. Partial breast irradiation for cancer
11. Evolving trends in localisation techniques in breast surgery
12. Advances in genetic risk of breast cancer

Section 7: Abdominal surgery

13. Para-oesophageal hernias
14. Idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension
15. Recent advances in complete mesocolic excision surgery for colon cancer

Section 8: Clinical trials

16. Major randomized controlled trials in surgery in the last five years

Michael Douek MB ChB MD FRCS FRCS EBSQ
Rosetrees Royal College of Surgeons of England; Director of the Surgical Interventional Trials Unit; Professor of Surgical Sciences and Breast Cancer, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

Rachel Hargest BSc MBBS FRCS MD FRCS
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Surgeon, University Hospital of Wales, Henry Wellcome Building, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK