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Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine (8 ed.)

Murray Longmore, Ian Wilkinson, Edward Davidson, Alexander Foulkes, Ahmad Mafi

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Feb 2010
Print ISBN-13:
9780199232178
Published to Oxford Medicine:
Aug 2010
DOI:
10.1093/med/9780199232178.001.0001

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Surgery

Chapter:
Surgery
Author(s):

Murray Longmore,

Ian Wilkinson,

Edward Davidson,

Alexander Foulkes,

Ahmad Mafi

DOI:
10.1093/med/9780199232178.003.0013

Surgery: Contents

Language of surgery

Perioperative care:

Pre-operative care - Consent - Prophylactic antibiotics - Bowel preparation - Sutures - Surgical drains - Anaesthesia - Local anaesthetics - Control of pain - General post-op complications - dvts - Swollen legs - Specific post-op complications - Stoma care - Nutritional support - Diabetic patients - Jaundiced patients - Patients on steroids - Patients on anticoagulants - Thyroid disease - Surgery in the obese - Minimally invasive surgery - Issues in day-case surgery

Lumps in head, neck & skin

Lumps - Skin diagnoses - Lumps in the neck - Lumps in the thyroid

Breast surgery:

Breast carcinoma - Benign breast disease

GI surgery:

Abdominal masses - Acute abdomen - Acute appendicitis - Obstruction of the bowel - Paralytic ileus - Pseudo-obstruction - Sigmoid volvulus - Volvulus of the stomach - Hernias – - Colorectal carcinoma - Gastro-oesophageal carcinomas - Oesophageal rupture - Mesenteric ischaemia - Gastric surgery - Operations for peptic ulcers - Fundoplication for gord - Bariatric surgery - Paediatric GI emergencies - Diverticular disease - Angiodysplasia - Rectal bleeding - Around the anus - Anal cancer - Haemorrhoids

Hepatobiliary surgery:

Gallstones - Acute pancreatitis

Urology:

Renal stones - Urinary tract obstruction - Urinary retention and bph - Obstructive uropathy - Urinary tract malignancies - Benign diseases of the penis - Prostatitis - Bladder tumours - Urinary incontinence - Lumps in groin & scrotum - Torsion of the testis - Undescended testes - Varicose veins - Gangrene & fasciitis - Skin ulcers

Vascular surgery:

Aneurysms of arteries - Thoracic artery dissection - Limb ischaemia - Carotid artery disease

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