Surgery: A Case-Based Clinical Review has established itself as an indispensable guide for medical students, interns, residents, and various healthcare trainees, including physician assistants, nursing students, and nurse practitioners. This third edition of the book builds upon its legacy of excellence in preparing students for the surgical shelf exam and clinical wards, while responding dynamically to the evolving field of surgery.
Overall, the book maintains its unique structure, beginning with a series of carefully selected cases that represent the most common and pivotal surgical scenarios. This edition retains the book’s signature easy-to-understand style, ensuring concepts are accessible to the core audience. Recognizing the crucial role of visual aids in the comprehension of complex surgical concepts, the third edition introduces a series of illustrations, further enhancing the visual appearance and utility of the text. The scope of this edition also includes a subtle yet significant update to existing chapters, ensuring they align with the latest surgical techniques and guidelines and keeping the book a current and reliable reference. Each section is followed by a set of targeted questions and answers, sharpening the reader's skills in diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and management.
The updated third edition will continue to provide students with the premier resource to not only learn classic surgical diseases and principles, but also continue to provide them with a comprehensive resource to prepare for their surgical exams.
Acute Care Surgery.- Fever and Hypotension in the Intensive Care Unit.-
Nausea, Vomiting, and Left Groin Mass.- Abdominal Pain, Nausea, and
Vomiting.- Right Leg Pain, Swelling, and Erythema for Two Days.- Abnormal
Screening Mammogram.- Breast and Skin.- New Palpable Mass in Right Breast.-
Recently Changed Skin Lesion.- Cardiothoracic.- Chest Pain, Diaphoresis, and
Nausea.- Chest and Back Pain,- Hemoptysis, Cough and Weight Loss.-
Endocrine.- Incidentally Discovered Adrenal Mass on CT Scan.- Fatigue,
Constipation, and Depressed Mood.- Intermittent Episodes of Sweating,
Palpitations, and Hypertension.- Neck Mass That Moves With Swallowing.- Head
and Neck.- Progressively Hoarse Voice.- Lump on Neck Increasing in Size.-
Aural Fullness, Hearing Loss, and Tinnitus.- Hepatopancreaticobiliary.-
Postprandial Right Upper Quadrant Pain.- Right Upper Quadrant Pain, Fever,
Nausea, and Vomiting.- Severe Epigastric Pain With Nausea and Vomiting.- New
Onsetof Painless Jaundice.- Lower Gastrointestinal.- Bright Red Blood per
Rectum.- Right Lower Quadrant Abdominal Pain.- Pencil-Thin Stools and
Intermittent Constipation.- Chronic Constipation Presenting With Severe
Abdominal Pain.- Left Lower Quadrant Pain and Fever.- Fatigue and Bloody
Diarrhea.- Neurosurgery.- Neck Pain and Extremity Weakness Following Trauma.-
Loss of Consciousness Following Head Trauma.- Orthopedic.- Multiple Extremity
Injuries After Motorcycle Accident.- Immediate Swelling After Trauma to the
Knee.- Adolescent Male With Right Groin Pain and Limp.- Chronic Right Hand
Pain.- Pediatric.- Full-Term Male Infant With Respiratory Distress.- Infant
With Bilious Emesis.- Infant With Nonbilious Emesis.- Infant Born With
Abdominal Wall Defect.- Excessive Drooling in a Newborn.- Surgical
Complications.- Postoperative Bleeding.- Postoperative Decreased Urine
Output.- Shortness of Breath Five Days After Surgery.- Trauma.- Abdominal
Pain Following Motor Vehicle Collision.- Penetrating Abdominal Trauma.-
Pedestrian Struck By Motor Vehicle.- Gunshot Wound to the Left Neck.- Stab
Wound to the Chest.- Burns to the Face, Trunk, and Extremities.- Severe Right
Leg Pain After Tibia Fracture.- Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Bloody
Emesis.- Severe Epigastric Abdominal Pain.- Weight Loss and Early Satiety.-
Chest Pain After Vomiting.- Urology.- Scrotal Pain.- Scrotal Mass.- Blood in
Urine.- Vascular.- Transient Loss of Vision in the Right Eye.- Right Calf
Pain With Walking.- Sudden Onset of Severe Left-Sided Abdominal Pain.- Cold,
Painful Right Lower Extremity.
Editors
Christian de Virgilio, MD, FACS, Department of Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA
Areg Grigorian, MD, FACS, Department of Surgery, University of California - Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
Assistant Editor
James McDermott, MD, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
