Farquharson's Textbook of Operative General Surgery

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Farquharson’s Textbook of Operative General Surgery covers not only basic techniques for the junior trainee but also the common operations in the general surgical subspecialties that are likely to be encountered during higher surgical training. Advice from surgeons practising in other surgical disciplines has been extensively utilised in these sections. Brendan Moran MCh, FRCSI Consultant Surgeon, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, UK; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Southampton University, Southampton, UK. It is with considerable diffidence, therefore, that I have approached such a task, but I have felt that there was scope for a one-volume book written by a general surgeon, and designed to present, as far as possible, the whole subject of operative surgery in balanced perspective from the viewpoint of the general surgeon.

H. Lam FRCS(Paed Surg) Paediatric Surgeon The Royal Hospital for Sick Children Edinburgh, UK Professor A. The advantage of an angulated scope, when manipulated by a skilled assistant, is the ability to look around structures that might otherwise be in the line of sight or to look at the operative field from different directions through the same port. In many parts of the world General Surgery has remained a more all-encompassing surgical discipline and in remote hospitals General Surgeons may be the only surgical specialists. The needle should be passed perpendicularly through the skin and the stitches tied with only sufficient tightness to bring the skin edges together without constriction. In every scenario a minimalaccess technique under image control has the potential to replace a major surgical intervention.Eric Farquharson was a young consultant at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary when Operative Surgery was first published in 1954, but it was as a General Surgical trainee in the 1930s that he started the project.

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