21st Edition
by Courtney M. Townsend (Author), Courtney M. Townsend Jr. (Editor)
For more than 80 years, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice has been the go-to text for trainees and surgeons at all levels of experience for definitive guidance on every aspect of general surgery. As the oldest continuously published textbook of surgery in North America, this fully revised 21st Edition continues to provide the key information, essential teaching pearls, and completely updated content needed to make the most informed surgical decisions and achieve optimal outcomes for patients.
- Follows a clear, consistent progression beginning
with principles common to surgical specialties including fluid and
electrolyte management, metabolic support, and wound healing. Subsequent
sections review the management of injury, transplantation, oncology,
breast, endocrine, and abdominal procedures.
- Covers key topics
such as emerging surgical technologies and devices, regenerative
medicine, the latest concepts in cancer biology and treatments, and
evidence-based management and treatment.
- Emphasizes the most up-to-date minimally invasive techniques and the use of robotics when indicated.
- Features
more than 2,000 superb illustrations and intraoperative photographs and
25 procedural videos that facilitate quick comprehension of surgical
techniques.
- Includes more schematic diagrams, summary tables,
boxes, and algorithms that provide a rich resource for reviewing
surgical techniques and preparing for in-training and board exams.
- Shares the expertise of dozens of new authors and includes two new chapters on robotic surgery and fetal surgery.
- Contains
fully updated content on topics encountered by general surgery
residents in training as well as in-depth coverage of subspecialty areas
including head and neck, thoracic, vascular, urology, neurosurgery,
pediatrics, and gynecology.
