Current Surgical Therapy, 14th Edition

An  essential resource for written, oral, and recertifying board study, as  well as an excellent reference for everyday clinical practice, Current  Surgical Therapy, 14th Edition, provides trusted, authoritative advice  on today's best treatment and management options for general surgery.  Residents and practitioners alike appreciate the concise, highly  formatted approach to each topic, as well as the practical, hands-on  advice on selecting and implementing current surgical approaches from  today’s preeminent general surgeons. This highly regarded text remains  the only surgical reference of its kind, offering a complete array of  topics and delivering just the key facts.

• Covers  virtually every problem that a general surgeon may encounter,  synthesizing vast amounts of information into concise, digestible  chapters.  
• Provides  thoroughly updated information throughout, including focused revisions  to the most in-demand topics, as well as a new chapter on robotics, how  these new devices have influenced surgery, and the benefits and outcomes  of each. 
• Presents  each topic using the same easy-to-follow format: disease presentation,  pathophysiology, diagnostics, and surgical therapy. 
• Includes  eight all-new surgical videos covering enteral stents in the treatment  of colonic obstruction; multiple management approaches to spigelian,  obturator, and lumbar hernias; spontaneous and secondary pneumothorax,  and acute mesenteric ischemia. 
• Features  more than 2,000 illustrations—line drawings, graphs, algorithms,  clinical/operative photographs, micrographs, and radiological  images—including hundreds new to this edition. 
• Integrates minimally invasive surgical techniques, basic science, and critical care aspects of surgical practice throughout. 
• Discusses which approach to take, how to avoid or minimize complications, and what outcomes to expect.