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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Anesthesia and Risk Management
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    Chapter 2 Fluids and Electrolytes
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    Chapter 3 Nutritional Support in the Surgical Patient
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    Chapter 4 Abnormal Bleeding and Coagulopathies
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    Chapter 5 Blood Transfusion and Alternative Therapies
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    Chapter 6 Circulatory Monitoring
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    Chapter 7 Acute Pain Management
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    Chapter 8 Initial Evaluation of the Trauma Patient
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    Chapter 9 Blunt Abdominal Trauma
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    Chapter 10 Penetrating Trauma: Neck, Thorax, and Abdomen
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    Chapter 11 Vascular Trauma: Life-threatening Thoracoabdominal Injuries and Limb-threatening Extremity Injuries
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    Chapter 12 Thermal Injury
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    Chapter 13 Closed Head Injury
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    Chapter 14 Spinal Trauma
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    Chapter 15 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
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    Chapter 16 Acute Renal Failure
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    Chapter 17 Monitoring of Respiratory Function and Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
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    Chapter 18 Coma and Altered Mental Status in the Surgical Critical Care Setting; Brain Death
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    Chapter 19 Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias
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    Chapter 20 Do Not Resuscitate, Do Not Treat
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    Chapter 21 Multiple Organ Dysfunction: The Systemic Host Response to Critical Surgical Illness
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    Chapter 22 Hepatic Failure
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    Chapter 23 General Principles of Sepsis
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    Chapter 24 Neurologic Physiology: The Brain and Its Response to Injury
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    Chapter 25 Pulmonary Embolism
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    Chapter 26 Right Ventricular Failure and Cardiogenic Shock
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    Chapter 27 Nosocomial Pneumonia
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    Chapter 28 Pericardial Tamponade
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    Chapter 29 Gastrointestinal Failure
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    Chapter 30 Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Insipidus
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    Chapter 31 Incidence, Etiology, Diagnosis, and Staging of Head and Neck Cancer
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    Chapter 32 Cancer of the Oral Cavity and Oropharynx
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    Chapter 33 Larynx and Hypopharynx
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    Chapter 34 Tumors of the Sinonasal Cavity and Anterior Skull Base
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    Chapter 35 Neck Metastasis and Unknown Primary Tumor
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    Chapter 36 Parotid and Salivary Glands
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    Chapter 37 Neurovascular and Soft Tissue Neoplasms of the Head and Neck
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    Chapter 38 Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
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    Chapter 39 Paraesophageal Hiatus Hernia
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    Chapter 40 Barrett's Esophagus
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    Chapter 41 Achalasia: Chagas' Disease
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    Chapter 42 Esophageal Perforation
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    Chapter 43 Esophageal Diverticula
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    Chapter 44 Esophageal Cancer: Diagnosis and Staging
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    Chapter 45 Esophageal Cancer: Transhiatal Resection
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    Chapter 46 Transthoracic Esophagectomy
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    Chapter 47 Peptic Ulcer Disease and Helicobacter Pylori
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    Chapter 48 Peptic Ulcer Disease: Perforation
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    Chapter 49 Peptic Ulcer Disease: Obstruction
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    Chapter 50 Peptic Ulcer Disease: Hemorrhage
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    Chapter 51 Gastric Ulcer
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    Chapter 52 Postgastrectomy and Postvagotomy Syndromes
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    Chapter 53 Bariatric Surgery
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    Chapter 54 Gastric Adenocarcinoma
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    Chapter 55 Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
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    Chapter 56 Gastric Lymphoma
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    Chapter 57 Small Bowel Obstruction
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    Chapter 58 Motility Disorders of the Small Bowel
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    Chapter 59 Appendicitis
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    Chapter 60 Short Bowel Syndrome
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    Chapter 61 Radiation and Surgery
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    Chapter 62 Splanchnic Venous Thrombosis
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    Chapter 63 Enterocutaneous Fistula
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    Chapter 64 Adenocarcinoma of the Small Bowel
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    Chapter 65 Lymphoma of the Small Bowel
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    Chapter 66 Carcinoid of the Small Bowel
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    Chapter 67 Stromal Tumors of the Small Bowel
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    Chapter 68 Large Bowel Obstruction
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    Chapter 69 Chronic Ulcerative Colitis
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    Chapter 70 Crohn's Disease of the Small Bowel and Colon
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    Chapter 71 Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction
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    Chapter 72 Surgical Therapy of Constipation
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    Chapter 73 Diverticulitis
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    Chapter 74 Pilonidal Disease
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    Chapter 75 Anal Fissure and Fistula
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    Chapter 76 Polyposis Syndromes of the Colon
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    Chapter 77 Clinical Management of Patients with Fecal Incontinence
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    Chapter 78 Pruritus Ani
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    Chapter 79 Rectovaginal Fistulas
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    Chapter 80 Pseudomembranous Colitis
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    Chapter 81 Toxic Megacolon
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    Chapter 82 Colonic Volvulus
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    Chapter 83 Rectal Prolapse and Solitary Rectal Ulcer
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    Chapter 84 Ischemic Colitis
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    Chapter 85 Hemorrhoids
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    Chapter 86 Premalignant Polyps of the Colon and Rectum
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    Chapter 87 Management of Colon Cancer
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    Chapter 88 Appendiceal Epithelial Neoplasms and Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, a Distinct Clinical Entity with Distinct Treatments
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    Chapter 89 Anal Cancer
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    Chapter 90 Rectal Cancer: Issues for the 21st Century, a Practical Update for the Surgeon
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    Chapter 91 Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Therapy for Colorectal Carcinoma
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    Chapter 92 Hepatitis
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    Chapter 93 Differential Diagnosis of the Liver Mass
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    Chapter 94 Benign Hepatic Neoplasms
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    Chapter 95 Hepatic Abscess: Current Concepts
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    Chapter 96 Portal Hypertension
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    Chapter 97 Cystic Liver Diseases
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    Chapter 98 Liver Transplantation for Budd-Chiari Syndrome
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    Chapter 99 Liver Hemangioma
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    Chapter 100 Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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    Chapter 101 Metastatic Cancer of the Liver
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    Chapter 102 Postcholecystectomy Syndrome
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    Chapter 103 Asymptomatic Gallstones
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    Chapter 104 Bile Duct Injury Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
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    Chapter 105 Cholelithiasis
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    Chapter 106 Choledocholithiasis
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    Chapter 107 Choledochal Cysts
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    Chapter 108 Biliary Dyskinesia: Functional Gallbladder and Sphincter of Oddi Disorders
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    Chapter 109 Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
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    Chapter 110 Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma
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    Chapter 111 Cancer of the Gallbladder
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    Chapter 112 Splenectomy
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    Chapter 113 Cyst and Abscess of the Spleen
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    Chapter 114 Malignant Diseases of the Spleen
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    Chapter 115 Management of Necrotizing Pancreatitis
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    Chapter 116 Acute Pancreatitis
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    Chapter 117 Chronic Pancreatitis: From Endotherapy to Surgery
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    Chapter 118 Pancreas Divisum
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    Chapter 119 Pancreatic Pseudocysts
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    Chapter 120 Obstructive Jaundice: Preoperative Evaluation
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    Chapter 121 Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas
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    Chapter 122 Pancreatic Carcinoma
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    Chapter 123 Nonfunctioning Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors
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    Chapter 124 Femoral Hernia
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    Chapter 125 Inguinal Hernia
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    Chapter 126 Incisional Hernia Repair
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    Chapter 127 Uncommon Abdominal Wall Hernias
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    Chapter 128 Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Diagnosis and Treatment
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    Chapter 129 Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
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    Chapter 130 Obscure Overt Gastrointestinal Bleeding
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    Chapter 131 Laparoscopic Colectomy
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    Chapter 132 Laparoscopic Appendectomy
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    Chapter 133 Laparoscopic Small Bowel Surgery
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    Chapter 134 Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration
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    Chapter 135 Advanced Gastric and Pancreatic Laparoscopic Procedures
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    Chapter 136 Infections of the Pleural Cavity
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    Chapter 137 Lung Abscess
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    Chapter 138 Hemoptysis in Benign Disease
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    Chapter 139 Spontaneous Pneumothorax and Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
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    Chapter 140 The Thymus
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    Chapter 141 Mediastinal Masses
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    Chapter 142 Neonatal Bowel Obstruction
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    Chapter 143 Anomalies of Bowel Rotation: malrotation and Midgut Volvulus
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    Chapter 144 Abdominal Wall Defects: omphalocele and Gastroschisis
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    Chapter 145 Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
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    Chapter 146 Intussusception
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    Chapter 147 Meckel's Diverticulum
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    Chapter 148 Benign Breast Disease: Diagnosis and Assessment
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    Chapter 149 Malignant Breast Disease: Diagnosis and Assessment
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    Chapter 150 High Risk Indicators: Microscopic Lesions, Personal and Family History, Assessment, and Management
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    Chapter 151 Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: Ductal and Lobular Origin
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    Chapter 152 Breast Carcinoma: Stages I and II
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    Chapter 153 Locally Advanced Breast Cancer
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    Chapter 154 Metastatic Carcinomas of the Breast
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    Chapter 155 Reconstruction of the Breast
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    Chapter 156 Evaluation of Malignant and Premalignant Skin Lesions
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    Chapter 157 Staging and Treatment Options for Cutaneous Melanoma
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    Chapter 158 Technique and Application of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Melanoma
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    Chapter 159 Surgical Treatment of Malignant Melanoma
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    Chapter 160 Surgical and Medical Management of Locally Advanced and Systemic Melanoma
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    Chapter 161 Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Extremities and Chest Wall
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    Chapter 162 Goiter and Nontoxic Benign Thyroid Conditions
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    Chapter 163 Papillary Thyroid Cancer
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    Chapter 164 Follicular, Hürthle Cell, and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancers
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    Chapter 165 Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
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    Chapter 166 Hyperparathyroidism: Primary and Secondary
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    Chapter 167 Functioning and Non-functioning Adrenal Tumors
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    Chapter 168 Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Pancreas
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    Chapter 169 Carcinoid Neoplasms
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    Chapter 170 Surgical Management of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
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    Chapter 171 Endometriosis
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    Chapter 172 Ovarian (Adnexal) Neoplasm, Benign
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    Chapter 173 Malignant Ovarian Neoplasms
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    Chapter 174 Endometrial Cancer
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    Chapter 175 Cervical Cancer
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    Chapter 176 Cerebrovascular Disease
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    Chapter 177 Thoracic, Abdominal, and Peripheral Aneurysmal Disease
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    Chapter 178 Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease
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    Chapter 179 Visceral Artery Occlusive Disease (Mesenteric Occlusive Disease)
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    Chapter 180 Acute Arterial Occlusions
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    Chapter 181 Venous and Lymphatic Disease
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    Chapter 182 Vascular Access for Hemodialysis
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    Chapter 183 The Diabetic Foot: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Standards of Care
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    Chapter 184 Amputation: Current Concepts
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    Chapter 185 Embolic Disease and Vena Cava Filters
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    Chapter 186 Complications of Vascular Surgery: Infected Vascular Grafts, Aortoenteric Fistula, and Pseudoaneurysms
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    Chapter 187 The Endovascular Management of Iliac Disease
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    Chapter 188 Endovascular Management of Carotid Disease
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    Chapter 189 Surgical Considerations in the Elderly
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    Chapter 190 Intra-abdominal Transplantation: Principles for the General Surgeon
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    Chapter 191 Urologic Principles for the General Surgeon
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    Chapter 192 Tropical Medicine for the General Surgeon
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    Chapter 193 HIV and the General Surgeon
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Title
General surgery
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, November 2008
DOI 10.1007/978-1-84628-833-3
ISBNs
978-1-84628-832-6, 978-1-84628-833-3, 978-1-84800-139-8
Authors

Bland, K. I

Editors

Bland, Kirby I., Büchler, Markus W., Csendes, Attila, Sarr, Michael G., Garden, O. James, Wong, John

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