Pancreatic Resection
CHAPTER 14 Pancreatic Resection Paul J. Foley, Jeffrey A. Drebin Case Study A 65-year-old male is referred to a surgeon for evaluation of a pancreatic mass. He reports a 2-month…
GENERAL SURGERY
Splenectomy
CHAPTER 18 Splenectomy Paul J. Foley, Thomas A. Wixted, Donna J. Barbot Case Study A 20-year-old female with immune (idiopathic) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is referred by her hematologist to a…
Central Venous Catheterization
CHAPTER 3 Central Venous Catheterization Ronald F. Parsons, Kristoffel R. Dumon Case Study A 68-year-old male undergoes an emergent left hemicolectomy for colonic ischemia. His postoperative course is complicated by…
Principles of Wound Closure
CHAPTER 2 Principles of Wound Closure Suhail K. Kanchwala, Louis P. Bucky Case Study A 21-year-old male presents to the emergency room with right lower quadrant pain. He is taken…
Preoperative and Intraoperative Care
CHAPTER 1 Preoperative and Intraoperative Care Robert E. Roses, Suhail K. Kanchwala, Patrick M. Reilly Case Study A 72-year-old male presents to a surgeon’s office after being diagnosed with a…
Ventral Herniorrhaphy
CHAPTER 5 Ventral Herniorrhaphy Joshua Fosnot, Matt L. Kirkland, III Case Study A 67-year-old male with a history of a laparotomy presents with a complaint of a “large bulge” in…
The nervous system
Chapter 11 The nervous system Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? Hippocrates (460–375 BC) The neurological history The neurological history…
The gastrointestinal system
Chapter 6 The gastrointestinal system To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to…
The rheumatological system
Chapter 9 The rheumatological system The rheumatism is a common name for many aches and pains which have yet got no peculiar appellation, though owing to very different causes. William…
The cardiovascular system
Chapter 4 The cardiovascular system The heart … moves of itself and does not stop unless for ever. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) This chapter deals with the history and the…
