The medical record; The physical examination; Evaluation of the preoperative patient; Postoperative complications; Fluid and electrolytes; Burns; Wound healing; The critically ill patient; Surgical nutrition; Surgical infections; Hemostasis in surgery; Transplantation; The head and neck nodule; The thyroid gland; The parathyroids; The breast; The chestwall, pleura, mediastinum and diaphragm; Benign and malignant pulmonary neoplasms; The esophagus; Myasthenia gravis; The appendix; The spleen - surgical considerations; The adrenal gland; Multiple endocrine neoplasia; Carcinoid tumors; The kidney; Stomach and duodenum; Biliary tract and pancreas; Portal hypertension - surgical shunts; Small intestine; Colon and rectum; The aorta and its major branches; Acute arterial occlusion; Transluminal angioplasty; The vascular laboratory; Veins and venous diseases; Entrapment neuropathies and the thoracic outlet syndrome; Amputations - levels, after-care, prostheses; The trauma patient.
