Bariatric surgery has become a mainstay in the treatment armamentarium of morbid obesity. Randomised trials have established the efficacy of bariat...

Patients affected with a hernia continue to represent a significant clinical population. Resulting from varied causes and associated with an array ...

Liver steatosis or nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a progressive disorder characterized by the fat accumulation in the parenchyma of th...

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most frequent complications after abdominal surgery as abdominal procedures are often clean-contaminate...

After nearly three decades of pioneering work, the field of robotic surgery is advancing into the next phase of development: Mainstream adoption. R...

Robotic surgery has revolutionised how surgeons think about minimally invasive surgery in the new century. No longer is robotic surgery only for sc...

This book represents an effort to document the experience of a carefully-chosen group of international surgeons, regarding the use of imaging techn...

Since Mondor’s times in the forties of the last century there was no other book in surgery to be written so easy and witty… Boris D. Savchuk, World...

Hippocrates of Cos was one of the first who described spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage without special knowledge about neuro-anatomy or neuro-p...

Dr. Moshe Schein has previously compiled two books of surgical aphorisms and quotations — the first book Aphorisms & Quotations for the Surgeon...

Surgery remains a challenge for young learners. Perhaps the most difficult of all surgeries are those done on the liver, biliary tree and pancreas....

The use of electrical stimulators with medical aims has increased exponentially in the last years. The uses are very different. Though the most wid...

This book was written by a team of vascular, cardiac and neurosurgeons working mainly in the East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, and ...