SURGERY SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES -- READING EFFECTIVELY TO ATTAIN PROFICIENCY IN SURGERY -- SUBSTRATE METABOLISM IN SURGERY -- NUTRITION AND METABOLISM -- WOUND HEALING -- HEMOSTASIS -- INFLAMMATION -- SURGICAL INFECTIONS -- SHOCK -- CRITICAL CARE -- FLUIDS, ELECTROLYTES, AND ACID-BASE BALANCE -- BURNS -- ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PAIN MANAGEMENT -- CANCER -- POLICY APPROACHES TO IMPROVING SURGICAL QUALITY -- MEASURING THE QUALITY OF SURGICAL CARE -- PATIENT SAFETY -- PART TWO SURGICAL PRACTICE -- SECTION A TRAUMA -- TRAUMA AND TRAUMA CARE: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS -- PREHOSPITAL AND RESUSCITATION CARE -- HEAD TRAUMA -- MAXILLOFACIAL TRAUMA -- NECK INJURIES -- CHEST TRAUMA -- ABDOMINAL TRAUMA -- GENITOURINARY TRAUMA -- VASCULAR TRAUMA -- ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA -- PEDIATRIC TRAUMA -- GERIATRIC TRAUMA AND END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS -- TRAUMA IN PREGNANCY -- CRITICAL CARE AND POSTINJURY MANAGEMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL INJURIES -- TERRORISM -- SECTION B TRANSPLANTATION & IMMUNOLOGY -- TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY -- ORGAN PRESERVATION -- RENAL TRANSPLANTATION -- HEPATIC TRANSPLANTATION -- CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION -- PULMONARY TRANSPLANTATION -- PANCREAS AND ISLET TRANSPLANTATION -- SECTION C HEAD AND NECK -- HEAD AND NECK -- SECTION D ESOPHAGUS -- ESOPHAGEAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY AND GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE -- ESOPHAGUS: TUMORS AND INJURY -- SECTION E STOMACH AND DUODENUM -- GASTRIC ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- GASTRODUODENAL ULCERATION -- MORBID OBESITY -- GASTRIC NEOPLASMS -- SECTION F SMALL INTESTINE -- ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SMALL INTESTINE -- ILEUS AND BOWEL OBSTRUCTION -- CROHN DISEASE* -- SMALL-INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS -- SECTION G PANCREAS -- PANCREAS ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- ACUTE PANCREATITIS -- CHRONIC PANCREATITIS -- NEOPLASMS OF THE EXOCRINE PANCREAS.

NEOPLASMS OF THE ENDOCRINE PANCREAS -- SECTION H HEPATOBILIARY AND PORTAL VENOUS SYSTEM -- HEPATOBILIARY ANATOMY -- HEPATIC INFECTION AND ACUTE HEPATIC FAILURE -- CIRRHOSIS AND PORTAL HYPERTENSION -- HEPATIC NEOPLASMS -- CALCULOUS BILIARY DISEASE -- BILIARY INJURIES AND STRICTURES AND SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS -- BILIARY NEOPLASMS -- SECTION I COLON, RECTUM, AND ANUS -- COLONIC AND RECTAL ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY -- GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDERS -- ACUTE GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE -- ULCERATIVE COLITIS -- COLONIC POLYPS AND POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES -- COLORECTAL CANCER -- DIVERTICULAR DISEASE -- ANORECTAL DISORDERS -- SECTION J HERNIA, ACUTE ABDOMEN, AND SPLEEN -- ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIAS -- ACUTE ABDOMEN AND APPENDIX -- THE SPLEEN -- SECTION K SURGICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY -- BREAST DISEASE -- THYROID GLAND -- PARATHYROID GLANDS -- ADRENAL GLAND -- PITUITARY GLAND -- SECTION L LUNG NEOPLASMS -- LUNG NEOPLASMS -- CHEST WALL, PLEURA, MEDIASTINUM, AND NONNEOPLASTIC LUNG DISEASE -- SECTION M ARTERIAL SYSTEM -- CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE -- VALVULAR HEART DISEASE AND CARDIAC TUMORS -- ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE -- MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT FOR CARDIAC FAILURE -- PERICARDIUM -- VASCULAR DIAGNOSTICS -- ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT OF DISEASE -- VASCULAR INFECTIONS -- ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND THE PATHOGENESIS OF OCCLUSIVE DISEASE -- CEREBROVASCULAR OCCLUSIVE DISEASE -- UPPER EXTREMITY ARTERIAL DISEASE -- RENAL ARTERY OCCLUSIVE AND ANEURYSMAL DISEASE -- SPLANCHNIC VASCULAR OCCLUSIVE AND ANEURYSMAL DISEASE -- AORTOILIAC DISEASE -- FEMOROPOPLITEAL AND TIBIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASE -- LOWER EXTREMITY AMPUTATION -- PATHOGENESIS OF ANEURYSMS -- THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSMS -- THORACOABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS -- ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS -- LOWER EXTREMITY ANEURYSMS -- SECTION N VENOUS SYSTEM -- VENOUS DISEASE -- SECTION O PEDIATRICS -- SURGICAL PHYSIOLOGY OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN.

FETAL INTERVENTION -- PEDIATRIC HEAD AND NECK -- THE PEDIATRIC CHEST -- PEDIATRIC ABDOMEN -- THE PEDIATRIC GENITOURINARY SYSTEM -- CHILDHOOD TUMORS -- SECTION P GENITOURINARY SYSTEM -- THE PREGNANT PATIENT -- SECTION Q SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE -- CUTANEOUS NEOPLASMS -- SARCOMAS OF SOFT TISSUE AND BONE -- PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY -- INDEX.