The series - A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice - is designed to provide trainee surgeons in higher surgical training with an excellent learning and revision resource and busy practicing surgeons with a regular update in a particular sub-specialty interest.
Produced to a very tight schedule, each volume in the series gives a current and succinct summary of all the key topics within the specialty and concentrates on recent developments.
To meet the increasing interest in evidence-based medicine, authors have cited whenever available, the meta analysis of randomised controlled trials and identified key references within the text which support evidence-based practice.
Other titles in the series are::- Core Topics In General and Emergency Surgery 2nd Edition Paterson-Brown Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Phillips Colorectal Surgery 2nd Edition Phillips Breast Surgery Farndon Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Beard and Gaines Transplantation Surgery:: Current Dilemmas 2nd Edition Forsythe Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery 2nd Edition Griffin & Raimes
1. Parathyroids - primary and secondary disease: Radu Mihai/JohnFarndon (UK) 2. The thyroid gland: Malcolm Wheeler (UK) 3. The adrenal glands: Laparoscopic surgeon in western Australia (John ?) (original chapter was disappointing) 4. Familial endocrine disease - genetics and early treatment: Radu Mihai/John Farndon (UK) 5. Endocrine tumors of the pancreas: Gary Peplinski/Jeffrey Norton (USA) 6. Carcinoid syndrome: Nigel Bax/Frank Woods (UK) 7. Clinical governance and quality in endocrine surgery 8. Medicolegal aspects of endocrine surgery: Anthony Young (UK) 9. The salivary glands