Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice - Tapa dura

"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 per cent 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 CDROM version is included with the textbook and contains over 2,000 review questions.