Recent Advances Series Edited by Colin Johnson Reader in Surgery, University of Southampton, UK Irving Taylor Professor of Surgery, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK £4.99,  978-1-85315-508-6,  229pp,  Paperback,  May 2002

Postgraduate Medical Journal
A careful read of this series is virtually ‘compulsory’ for all candidates for the intercollegiate final FRCS examination in general surgery. It is also required reading for all busy consultants and general surgeons, so that we feel faintly ‘guilty’ if we haven’t done it. … The 25th edition is a worthy successor. … My advice to general surgeons and their specialist registrars is buy it and read it from cover to cover.

Hospital Medicine
It must be one of the pleasures of editing such a book to choose topical areas of surgery relevant to both the practicing senior surgeon and trainee about to sit the Intercollegiate examination. Again the editors have provided a wide range of interesting chapters…the reader is provided with a précis of important randomized control trials in general surgery that have been published over the past year…another excellent feature is the detail of references available with each chapter.

ANZ Journal of Surgery
The book lives up to its title well … an easy-to-read text … most general surgeons and advanced general surgery trainees would benefit from owning a copy

The Royal Society of Medicine Press is delighted to publish Recent Advances in Surgery 25, which is part of the successful and well established Recent Advances series (previously published by Churchill Livingstone).

This title is updated annually, covering the latest trends within surgery and reflecting any changes to the professional examinations for surgeons. It provides a comprehensive survey of up-to-date knowledge for candidates of the MRCS/AFRCS examinations, and forms a useful update of general surgery for candidates of the Intercollegiate Examination.

Recent Advances in Surgery 25 focuses on 'General Surgery' and also carries contributions on important topics relevant to the management of all surgical patients, providing in-depth reviews of important advancing areas in surgical subspecialties. This wide scope makes this book an ideal choice for the busy consultant as well as an essential read for students of surgery at all levels.

Contents:
Surgery in general
1. Resuscitation and trauma surgery - Douglas M.G. Bowley, James M. Ryan
2. Management of wounds - D.J. Leaper, K.G. Harding, C.J. Phillips
3. Postoperative pain control - Malvena E. Stuart Taylor
4. Peri-operative nutritional support - Mike Stroud
5. Genes and the surgeon - Rachel M. Bright-Thomas
Gastrointestinal sphincter disorders
6. The role of botulinum toxin in gastrointestinal surgery - A.G. Acheson, N. Griffin, J.H. Scholefield
Upper gastrointestinal
7. Oral carcinoma - S. Misra, A. Chaturvedi, N.C. Misra
8. Current developments in the non-surgical management of pancreatic cancer -
A.D. Gilliam, S.A. Watson, I.J. Beckingham
9. Primary tumours of the liver - J.N. Primrose
Lower gastrointestinal
10. Large bowel obstruction - Meheshinder Singh, John R.T. Monson
11. Local recurrence of rectal cancer - Ayo Oshowo, I. Taylor
12. Benign anal disease - K.P. Nugent
Vascular
13. Angioplasty for critical limb ischaemia - Jonathan D. Beard, Peter A. Gaines
Breast/oncology
14. The clinical application of PET in surgical oncology - Tan Arulampalam, I. Taylor
15. Adjuvant treatment in breast cancer - J. Michael Dixon
Overview
16. Recent randomised controlled trials in general surgery - Michael Douek, I. Taylor

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