surgery. include index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Wound healing -- Surgical infections and AIDS -- Anaesthesia and the operating room -- Care of the critically-ill patient -- Medical problems in the surgical patient -- Imaging the surgical practice -- Arteries -- Veins -- Abnormalities of the lymphatic system -- Organ transplantation -- Endocrine disease -- Breast -- Endoscopic surgery -- Oesophagus -- Stomach and duodenum -- Small intestine -- Surgery for obesity -- Colon and rectum -- Appendix -- Anus -- Peritoneum and intraperitoneal abscesses -- Liver -- Biliary tract -- Portal hypertension.include index( 122p.) vol 2. general surgery -- skin -- urology -- cardiac surgery -- thoracic surgery -- paediatric surgery -- neurosurgery -- head and neck surgery-- orthopaedics-- surgery of tropical disease-- cancer -- plastic surgery .

Pancreas -- Abdominal wall, omentum, mesentery and retroperitoneum -- Endoscopy of the alimentary tract -- Acute abdomen -- Hernias of the abdominal wall -- v. 2. Gynaecology and obstetrics in general surgery -- Soft tissue tumours -- Skin -- Urology -- Cardiac surgery -- Thoracic surgery -- Paediatric surgery -- Spleen and haemopoietic tissues -- Neurosurgery -- Head and neck surgery -- Orthopaedics -- Surgery of tropical disease -- Cancer -- Irradiation in cancer -- Pain relief -- Plastic surgery -- Design of controlled clinical trials.

Molecular biology and clinical practice -- How should surgical trainees be selected?

v. 1. Sections 1-29 and index -- v. 2. Sections 30-48 and index.

the Oxford textbook of surgery aims to present a picture of surgery in its totality .

All age.