Main description:

- This addition to the prestigious series of Recent Advances in Surgery is completely

revised and updated. Written by experienced senior and most credible experts, using

symptom-based scenarios to comprehensively explore a range of issues with which

practicing surgeons and students need to be familiar to evolve into competent

medical practitioners. It chronicles some of the challenges which have been

encountered by surgical practitioners around the world through innovation and new

techniques

- This book providing updates on various areas of surgery, is a reminder of its value in

growth and evolution. It includes a chapter on how to manage mass casualties in

disasters and terrorist attacks which is sadly becoming the need of the hour. Stem cell

research and tissue engineering are being viewed as the hope for future

- The role of radioisotopes in management of endocrine disease, molecular approach

to treatment, genetics, interventional radiology and the biomechanical insight into

wound healing, depict a healthy integration of various scientific disciplines

- The six sigma methodology illustrates the extent to which surgical care, like any other

field needs quality improvement tools