Rob & Smith's Operative Surgery: General Principles, Breast and Extracranial Endocrines

Part One: Pre-and postoperative care. Bacteriology and preparation of the skin; Bowel preparation; Respiratory management of the surgical patient; Caridiac evaluation of the surgical patient; Perioperative urological care; Techniques in intravenous therapy; Gastrointestinal intubation; Pain relief in relation to operations; Skin protection in the presence of fistulae; Prevention and treatment of decubitus ulcers (pressure sores); Managing the surgical operative specimen; The general therapy of malignant disease. Part Two: Environment, safety and basic techniques. Design and safety in the operating theatre; Operative techniques. Part Three: Wounds. Ligatures and suture materials; Wound closure; Wounds: principles of management of different tissues; Principles of small grafts and flaps; Wound drainage; Wound dressings and techniques; Local care of burns in the early surgery of the burned patient; Part Four: Sepsis. Principles and practice of drainage of abscesses; Hand sepsis; Procedures for pilonidal disease; Surgery of hidradenitis suppurativa; The gangrenes. Part Five: Surface lesions. Excision of surface lesions; Biopsy of specific tissues; Operative management of cutaneous melanoma; Isolated limb perfusion for chemotherapy of tumours. Part Six: Breast. Operations for benign breast disease; Fine needle aspiration of solid tumours of the breast; Modified-radical and radical mastectomy; Total mastectomy and axillary node sample; Partial mastectomy for carcinoma of the breast; Restorative prosthetic mammaplasty (non-mutilating mastectomy) in mastectomy for carcinoma and benign lesions; Chest wall coverage after radical surgery; Breast reconstruction after modified-radical and radical mastectomy; Augmentation mammaplasty. Part Seven: Thyroid. Thyroid needle aspiration and biopsy; Thyroglossal duct cyst; Thyroidectomy: subtotal lobectomy and lobectomy; Thyroid cancer; Total thyroidectomy; Retrosternal goitre. Part Eight: Other endocrine glands. Parathyroid gland exploration; Thymectomy; Operations on the adrenal glands; Operations on the pancreas for insulinoma; Gastrointestinal endocrine tumours.