General Surgical Operations

This edition has been divided into 19 sections containing 101 chapters. Many new chapters have been added such as Surgery for Liver, Surgery for Portal Hypertension, Principles of Day-case Surgery, Management of Rectal Cancer, Surgery of Adrenals, Parathyroidectomy, and Bariatric Surgery?in view of their growing importance and demand in the current surgical practices. The chapter Management of Rectal Cancer has been updated by the authors, who are devoted to colorectal surgery; and, the chapters under the section Vascular Surgery have been rewritten by the promising surgeons expert in vascular surgery. This edition, like the previous one, presents step-by-step description of the common surgical operations intended for the medical students, postgraduate trainees and practicing surgeons.