Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice

Front Cover
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION I - Surgical Basic Principles
	1 History of Surgery
	2 Ethics in Surgery
	3 Molecular and Cell Biology
	4 Mediators of the Inflammatory Response
	5 Shock, Electrolytes, and Fluid
	6 Hematologic Principles in Surgery
	7 Metabolism in Surgical Patients
	8 Wound Healing
	9 Regenerative Medicine
	10 Critical Assessment of Surgical Outcomes
	11 Surgical Patient Safety
SECTION II - Perioperative Management
	12 Principles of Preoperative and Operative Surgery
	13 Ultrasound for Surgeons
	14 Surgical Infections and Choice of Antibiotics
	15 Surgical Complications
	16 Surgery in the Elderly
	17 Morbid Obesity
	18 Anesthesiology Principles, Pain Management, and Conscious Sedation
	19 Emerging Technology in Surgery: Informatics, Electronics, Robotics
SECTION III - Trauma and Critical Care
	20 Management of Acute Trauma
	21 Emergency Care of Musculoskeletal Injuries
	22 Burns
	23 Bites and Stings
	24 Surgical Critical Care
	25 Bedside Surgical Procedures
	26 The Surgeon’s Role in Unconventional Civilian Disasters
SECTION IV - Transplantation and Immunology
	27 Transplantation Immunology and Immunosuppression
	28 Transplantation of Abdominal Organs
SECTION V - Surgical Oncology
	29 Tumor Biology and Tumor Markers
	30 Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignancies
	31 Soft Tissue Sarcomas
	32 Bone Tumors
SECTION VI - Head and Neck
	33 Head and Neck
SECTION VII - Breast
	34 Diseases of the Breast
	35 Breast Reconstruction
SECTION VIII - Endocrine
	36 Thyroid
	37 The Parathyroid Glands
	38 Endocrine Pancreas
	39 The Adrenal Glands
	40 The Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes
SECTION IX - Esophagus
	41 Esophagus
	42 Hiatal Hernia and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
SECTION X - Abdomen
	43 Abdominal Wall, Umbilicus, Peritoneum, Mesenteries, Omentum, and Retroperitoneum
	44 Hernias
	45 Acute Abdomen
	46 Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
	47 Stomach
	48 Small Intestine
	49 The Appendix
	50 Colon and Rectum
	51 Anus
	52 The Liver
	53 Surgical Complications of Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension
	54 Biliary System
	55 Exocrine Pancreas
	56 The Spleen
SECTION XI - Chest
	57 Chest Wall and Pleura
	58 The Mediastinum
	59 Lung (Including Pulmonary Embolism and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome)
	60 Congenital Heart Disease
	61 Acquired Heart Disease: Coronary Insufficiency
	62 Acquired Heart Disease: Valvular
SECTION XII - Vascular
	63 Thoracic Vasculature With Emphasis on the Thoracic Aorta
	64 Cerebrovascular Disease
	65 Aneurysmal Vascular Disease
	66 Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease
	67 Vascular Trauma
	68 Venous Disease
	69 The Lymphatics
	70 Access and Ports
SECTION XIII - Specialties in General Surgery
	71 Pediatric Surgery
	72 Neurosurgery
	73 Plastic Surgery
	74 Hand Surgery
	75 Gynecologic Surgery
	76 Surgery in the Pregnant Patient
	77 Urologic Surgery
Index