Clinical Surgery Pearls (3^rd Ed.)

This third edition has been fully revised and updated to provide students with the latest information to help them prepare for surgical examinations.

Presented in question and answer format, the book consists of fifty long and short clinical cases. Each case begins with an overview, a checklist for history and physical examination, and diagnostic points. Commonly asked exam questions follow, reviewing the relevant anatomy, physiology, investigations, differential diagnosis, updated staging, and management techniques.

Discussion on staging corresponds with the American Joint Cancer Committee (AJCC) 8^th edition cancer staging system.

Separate chapters cover definitions of key terminologies, and radiology and imaging. The book concludes with important tables and charts for trauma, neck, breast, abdomen, burns and more.

This comprehensive revision reference features more than 200 drawings, flowcharts and clinical photographs, many of them new to this edition.

Key points

• Fully revised, third edition providing long and short surgical cases to assist students with exam preparation
• Cases presented in question and answer format, with separate sections on terminologies and imaging
• Discussion on staging corresponds with AJCC 8^th edition cancer staging system
• Previous edition (9789350903964) published in 2013

Section 1: Definitions

• Definitions

Section 2: Long Cases

• Toxic Goiter
• Solitary Thyroid Nodule (STN-Nontoxic)
• Papillary Carcinoma Thyroid with Lymph Node Metastases
• Multinodular Goiter
• Early Breast Cancer
• Advanced Breast Cancer
• Epigastric Lump
• Right Hypochondrial Lump without Jaundice
• Right Iliac Fossa Mass (Suspected Ileocecal Tuberculosis)
• Suspected Carcinoma of the Cecum
• Appendicular Mass
• Obstructive Jaundice
• Varicose Veins
• Peripheral Occlusive Vascular Disease
• Lymphoma
• Renal Swelling
• Pseudocyst of Pancreas
• Retroperitoneal Tumor
• Testicular Malignancy
• Portal Hypertension
• Mesenteric Cyst

Section 3: Short Cases

• Non-thyroid Neck Swelling
• Tuberculous Cervical Lymph Node
• Cervical Metastatic Lymph Node and Neck Dissections
• Carcinoma Tongue with Submandibular Lymph Node
• Carcinoma of Gingivobuccal Complex (Indian Oral Cancer)
• Parotid Swelling
• Submandibular Sialadenitis
• Ranula, Plunging Ranula, Sublingual Dermoid and Mucous Cyst
• Thyroglossal Cyst, Lingual Thyroid, Ectopic Thyroid, Subhyoid Bursa and Carcinoma Arising in Thyroglossal Cyst
• Branchial Cyst, Branchial Fistula, Cystic Hygroma
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Neurofibroma, von Recklinghausen’s Disease 364
• Lipoma (Universal Tumor)
• Sebaceous Cyst/Epidermoid Cyst/Wen/Dermoid Cyst
• Ulcer
• Malignant Melanoma
• Basal Cell Carcinoma/Rodent Ulcer
• Squamous Cell Carcinoma—SCC (Epithelioma)
• Carcinoma Penis
• Congenital Arteriovenous Fistula/Hemangioma/Compressible Swelling
• Unilateral Lower Limb Edema
• Hydrocele of Tunica Vaginalis Sac (Epididymal Cyst, Spermatocele, Varicocele, Hematocele, Chylocele etc)
• Inguinal Hernia/Femoral Hernia
• Incisional Hernia (Ventral Hernia, Postoperative Hernia)
• Epigastric Hernia (Fatty Hernia of the Linea Alba)
• Paraumbilical Hernia, Umbilical Hernia in Adults and Children
• Desmoid Tumor, Interparietal Hernia (Interstitial) and Spigelian Hernia
• Gynecomastia/Male Breast Carcinoma
• Fibroadenoma/Cystosarcoma/Breast Cyst/Fibroadenosis/Fibrocystic Disease/Mastalgia/Mastopathy/Chronic Mastitis

Section 4: Radiology and Imaging

• Radiology Questions and Answers

Section 5: Important Tables and Charts

• General
• Trauma
• Burns
• Neck
• Breast
• Abdomen
• Vascular
• Limbs
• Anorectal

Index

R Dayananda Babu MS MNAMS
Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, Sree Gokulam Medical College and Research Foundation, Venjaramoodu, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India