- Quick Reference Material
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the Third edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Dedications
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Amendments and Errata
- Amendments and Errata to Third Edition
- Chapter 1 Good surgical practice
- Chapter 2 Principles of surgery
- Chapter 3 Surgical pathology
- Chapter 4 Practical procedures
- Chapter 5 Head and neck surgery
- Chapter 6 Breast and endocrine surgery
- Chapter 7 Upper gastrointestinal surgery
- Chapter 8 Liver, pancreatic, and biliary surgery
- Chapter 9 Abdominal wall
- Chapter 10 Urology
- Chapter 11 Colorectal surgery
- Chapter 12 Paediatric surgery
- Chapter 13 Paediatric orthopaedic
- Chapter 14 Major trauma
- Chapter 15 Orthopaedic surgery
- Chapter 16 Plastic surgery
- Chapter 17 Cardiothoracic surgery
- Chapter 18 Peripheral vascular disease
- Chapter 19 Transplantation
- Chapter 20 Surgery in tropical diseases
- Chapter 21 Common operations
- Chapter 22 Eponymous terms and rarities
- Anatomy and physiology key revision points index
- Index
(p. 729) Common operations
- Chapter:
- (p. 729) Common operations
- Author(s):
Greg McLatchie
and Neil Borley
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199699476.003.0021
Diagnostic laparoscopy 730
Principles of laparotomy 732
Cholecystectomy 734
Appendicectomy 736
Inguinal hernia repair 738
Perforated peptic ulcer repair 740
Haemorrhoid surgery 742
Pilonidal sinus excision (Bascom II) 744
Femoral embolectomy 746
Right hemicolectomy 748
Stoma formation 750
Wide local excision—breast 752
Below knee amputation ...
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- Quick Reference Material
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the Third edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Dedications
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Symbols and abbreviations
- Amendments and Errata
- Amendments and Errata to Third Edition
- Chapter 1 Good surgical practice
- Chapter 2 Principles of surgery
- Chapter 3 Surgical pathology
- Chapter 4 Practical procedures
- Chapter 5 Head and neck surgery
- Chapter 6 Breast and endocrine surgery
- Chapter 7 Upper gastrointestinal surgery
- Chapter 8 Liver, pancreatic, and biliary surgery
- Chapter 9 Abdominal wall
- Chapter 10 Urology
- Chapter 11 Colorectal surgery
- Chapter 12 Paediatric surgery
- Chapter 13 Paediatric orthopaedic
- Chapter 14 Major trauma
- Chapter 15 Orthopaedic surgery
- Chapter 16 Plastic surgery
- Chapter 17 Cardiothoracic surgery
- Chapter 18 Peripheral vascular disease
- Chapter 19 Transplantation
- Chapter 20 Surgery in tropical diseases
- Chapter 21 Common operations
- Chapter 22 Eponymous terms and rarities
- Anatomy and physiology key revision points index
- Index