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Abstract
Eureka – an innovative series for students that fully integrates core science, clinical medicine and surgery. With its engaging and authoritative text, featuring insightful clinical cases, graphic narratives, SBAs and a wealth of other learning tools, Eureka has everything students need to succeed in medicine and pass their exams.
Eureka – content that reflects today’s medical degree courses with their emphasis on:
- relevance and application of core science to clinical practice
- skills required to examine and communicate with patients
- integrated care across primary and acute care settings
Eureka – 15 clinical titles, 5 science titles:
- Clinical titles – disease-based, clinical cases, system-specific core science
- Science titles – bedrock biomedical principles, clinical cases
Series features across titles:
- Engaging clinical cases show how skilled clinician would work through a presentation, and put diseases and biomedical principles into patient context
- Innovative graphic narratives bring clinical cases to life, show how to approach difficult scenarios and convey the experience of being a patient
- Starter questions - stimulating answers to intriguing questions make learning fun
- Boxes highlight tips, tricks and key learning points
General Surgery & Urology
- First principles chapter clearly explains key concepts such as assessment of the patient fitness for surgery, patient consent and pain management
- Clinical essentials chapter provides an overview of the symptoms and signs of surgical disease, investigations and management options
- Disease-based chapters briefly describe, by system, relevant structure and function, history and examination and main surgical presentations, each chapter introduced by engaging clinical cases that feature unique graphic narratives
- Emergencies chapter covers the principles of immediate care in situations such as acute appendicitis
- Self-Assessment – 80 multiple choice questions in clinical SBA format, in line with current exam format
Stephen Parker
Warwick Medical School, UK
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Half Title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Copyright | iv | ||
| Contents | viii | ||
| Series Editors’ Foreword | v | ||
| About the Series Editors | vi | ||
| Preface | vii | ||
| Glossary | x | ||
| Acknowledgements | xi | ||
| Chapter 1 First principles | 1 | ||
| Preoperative issues | 1 | ||
| Perioperative issues | 8 | ||
| Postoperative issues | 13 | ||
| Chapter 2 Clinical essentials | 23 | ||
| Introduction | 23 | ||
| Common symptoms of surgical diagnoses | 23 | ||
| Common signs of surgical diagnoses | 26 | ||
| Investigations | 35 | ||
| Screening programmes | 38 | ||
| Surgical techniques | 39 | ||
| Chapter 3 Breast disease | 45 | ||
| Introduction | 45 | ||
| Case 1 Breast lump | 46 | ||
| Core sciences | 47 | ||
| Triple assessment | 50 | ||
| Disorders of breast development | 54 | ||
| Benign breast disease | 54 | ||
| Breast pain | 57 | ||
| Breast cancer | 57 | ||
| Gynaecomastia | 62 | ||
| Chapter 4 Endocrine surgery | 65 | ||
| Introduction | 65 | ||
| Case 2 Neck lump | 66 | ||
| Core sciences | 68 | ||
| History, examination and investigation | 73 | ||
| Altered thyroid states | 76 | ||
| Thyroglossal cysts | 78 | ||
| Solitary thyroid nodules | 79 | ||
| Thyroid neoplasms | 80 | ||
| Thyroiditis | 82 | ||
| Parathyroid conditions | 83 | ||
| Adrenal conditions | 85 | ||
| Carcinoid tumours | 89 | ||
| Chapter 5 Upper gastrointestinal surgery | 91 | ||
| Introduction | 91 | ||
| Case 3 Epigastric pain and weight loss | 92 | ||
| Core sciences | 94 | ||
| History, examination and investigation | 98 | ||
| Gastro-oesophageal reflux | 100 | ||
| Achalasia | 101 | ||
| Peptic ulcer disease | 102 | ||
| Oesophageal cancer | 104 | ||
| Gastric cancer | 106 | ||
| Chapter 6 Colorectal surgery | 111 | ||
| Introduction | 111 | ||
| Case 4 Groin lump | 112 | ||
| Case 5 Change in bowel habit | 113 | ||
| Core science | 115 | ||
| History, examination and investigation | 118 | ||
| Abdominal wall hernias | 121 | ||
| Intestinal stomas | 124 | ||
| Enterocutaneous fistulae | 124 | ||
| Inflammatory bowel disease | 125 | ||
| Diverticular disease | 129 | ||
| Colorectal polyps | 130 | ||
| Colorectal cancer | 131 | ||
| Perianal conditions | 134 | ||
| Chapter 7 Hepatobiliary surgery | 139 | ||
| Introduction | 139 | ||
| Case 6 Jaundice | 140 | ||
| Core science | 141 | ||
| History and examination | 145 | ||
| Obstructive jaundice | 148 | ||
| Gallstone disease | 150 | ||
| Pancreatic cancer | 152 | ||
| Liver and biliary cancer | 155 | ||
| Portal hypertension and ascites | 157 | ||
| Splenic disorders | 160 | ||
| Chapter 8 Urology | 163 | ||
| Introduction | 163 | ||
| Case 7 Abdominal pain and microscopic haematuria | 164 | ||
| Case 8 Urinary frequency | 165 | ||
| Case 9 Painless haematuria and a loin mass | 166 | ||
| Core science | 167 | ||
| History and examination | 172 | ||
| Urinary tract infection | 176 | ||
| Ureteric and bladder calculi | 178 | ||
| Renal cancer | 180 | ||
| Bladder cancer | 182 | ||
| Bladder outflow obstruction | 183 | ||
| Prostate cancer | 185 | ||
| Testicular disorders | 186 | ||
| Penile disorders | 189 | ||
| Chapter 9 Vascular surgery | 193 | ||
| Introduction | 193 | ||
| Case 10 Cold painful foot | 194 | ||
| Core science | 195 | ||
| History, examination and investigation | 198 | ||
| Intermittent claudication and chronic limb ischaemia | 203 | ||
| Acute limb ischaemia | 205 | ||
| Diabetic foot | 207 | ||
| Carotid artery disease | 208 | ||
| Abdominal aortic aneurysm | 210 | ||
| Vascular trauma | 212 | ||
| Varicose veins | 213 | ||
| Venous hypertension and leg ulceration | 215 | ||
| Lymphatic conditions | 216 | ||
| Raynaud’s disease | 218 | ||
| Chapter 10 Surgical emergencies | 221 | ||
| Introduction | 221 | ||
| Acute appendicitis | 222 | ||
| Acute mesenteric ischaemia | 224 | ||
| Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage | 225 | ||
| Lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage | 227 | ||
| Intestinal obstruction | 229 | ||
| Sigmoid volvulus | 231 | ||
| Gastrointestinal perforation | 232 | ||
| Acute pancreatitis | 234 | ||
| Chapter 11 Self-assessment | 239 | ||
| SBA questions | 239 | ||
| SBA answers | 247 | ||
| Index | 255 | ||
| A | 255 | ||
| B | 255 | ||
| C | 256 | ||
| D | 257 | ||
| E | 257 | ||
| F | 257 | ||
| G | 257 | ||
| H | 258 | ||
| I | 258 | ||
| J | 259 | ||
| K | 259 | ||
| L | 259 | ||
| M | 259 | ||
| N | 259 | ||
| O | 259 | ||
| P | 259 | ||
| R | 260 | ||
| S | 260 | ||
| T | 261 | ||
| U | 261 | ||
| V | 262 | ||
| W | 263 |