Recent Advances in Surgery - 12

- This addition to the prestigious series of Recent Advances in Surgery is completely revised and updated. Written by experienced senior and most credible experts, using symptom-based scenarios to comprehensively explore a range of issues with which practicing surgeons and students need to be familiar to evolve into competent medical practitioners. It chronicles some of the challenges which have been encountered by surgical practitioners around the world through innovation and new techniques - This book providing updates on various areas of surgery, is a reminder of its value in growth and evolution. It includes a chapter on how to manage mass casualties in disasters and terrorist attacks which is sadly becoming the need of the hour. Stem cell research and tissue engineering are being viewed as the hope for future - The role of radioisotopes in management of endocrine disease, molecular approach to treatment, genetics, interventional radiology and the biomechanical insight into wound healing, depict a healthy integration of various scientific disciplines - The six sigma methodology illustrates the extent to which surgical care, like any other field needs quality improvement tools