Safe surgery is founded upon careful dissection and clear identification of vital structures. Knowledge of the appropriate anatomy and anatomical relations is therefore essential, not only during surgical training, but as the cornerstone of surgical practice. The aim of this book is to describe the essential anatomical basis of a range of common procedures in general and vascular surgery. The large-format multi-volume texts on operative surgery, despite their undoubted excellence, are now too expensive for individual purchase. Single-volume books on operative surgery have been unable to devote sufficient attention to anatomical detail and the surgeon is left ploughing through anatomy texts, often failing to find illustrations which demonstrate clearly the features that are important in an operative dissection. The present text highlights features of the operations which are important anatomically while not attempting to give a complete description of the operative procedure. A combination of line diagrams and cross sections has been used to provide the topographical detail. The volume is aimed mainly at surgeons in training, to help them on a day-toยญ day basis and to provide a text which will be useful in revising for postยญ graduate examinations in surgery. It is also hoped that the book will be of use to practising surgeons, providing an easy means of highlighting important anatomical aspects of the procedures they perform relatively infrequently. 1989 S.J.S
CONTENT
I Head and Neck -- Superficial Parotidectomy -- Excision of Submandibular Gland -- Cervical Sympathectomy -- Thyroidectomy -- Thyroglossal Cyst -- Tracheostomy -- Pharyngeal Pouch -- Branchial Cyst and Fistula -- II Abdomen -- Truncal Vagotomy with Pyloroplasty and Highly Selective Vagotomy -- Total Gastrectomy -- Partial Gastrectomy -- Ivor Lewis Approach to the Intrathoracic Oesophagus -- Cholecystectomy and the Biliary Tree -- The Subphrenic Spaces -- Splenectomy -- Partial Pancreatectomy (Whippleโ{128}{153}s Operation) -- Appendicectomy -- Right Hemicolectomy -- Left Hemicolectomy -- Anterior Resection -- Abdominoperineal Excision of the Rectum -- Stomas -- Haemorrhoidectomy -- Perianal Sepsis, Abscess and Fistulae -- Inguinal Herniae -- Femoral Hernia -- III Vasculature -- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (Infra-renal) -- Aortobifemoral Bypass Graft (for occlusive arterial disease) -- Exposure of the Femoral Artery -- Exposure of the Popliteal Artery -- Exposure of the Axillary Artery -- Exposure of the Brachial Artery -- Carotid Endarterectomy -- Lumbar Sympathectomy -- Above Knee Amputation -- Below Knee Amputation -- Varicose Vein Surgery -- IV Miscellaneous -- Surgical Exposure of the Kidney -- Approaches to the Ureter -- Simple Mastectomy -- Microdochectomy
