While the contents are meant to bring the reader up to date with technological advances, the authors have attempted to balance their enthusiasm with basic science, translational research, and clinical outcomes.

This fully revised new edition provides a comprehensive, concise, and practical guide to all common operative equipment, techniques, procedures, and surgical management of the patient.

Features comprehensive guidance on various aspects of childhood surgery, including congenital malformations, tumors, trauma, and urologic problems. This title helps you apply developments in fetal surgery, adolescent bariatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery in children, and tissue engineering for the repair of congenital anomalies.

The Viva Voce is a particularly difficult element of the MRCS exam since candidates are tested across a range of topics in surgery, pathology, critical care and basic science. Each subject area in this guide to sitting and passing Viva Voce part of the MRCS exam offers 20-30 questions.

An in-depth, one-source guide and reference, Sterilization Validation & Routine Operation Handbook: Radiation provides a framework for the validation and routine operation of an irradiation sterilization process. All steps from pre-validation planning to final report and ongoing monitoring and control are covered in detail.

In this book an international panel of authors offer a clear, step-by-step approach to Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE), a new refractive procedure approved for the treatment of myopia and astigmatism that is a truly minimally invasive key-hole type surgery.

A complete guide to the successful treatment of patients with benign and malignant disease of the head and neck.

Prompt and accurate diagnosis, as well as effective treatment, of surgical complications is one of the most important elements of surgical practice. This title deals with the diagnosis, treatment, auditing, medico-legal implications and ethical problems related to surgical complications.