Provides practical guidance for the urgent and crucial treatment decisions surgeons make every day. This work offers performance measures in surgical practice - what surgeons need to know about the new measures to guide quality improvement.

Here are some of the NEW things "ACS Surgery: Principles and Practice 2006" edition has to offer: Performance Measures in Surgical Practice - What surgeons need to know about the new measures to guide quality improvement; expanded GI Section - new chapters include Tumors of the Stomach, Duodenum, and Small Bowel - Tumors of the Pancreas, Biliary Tract, and Liver - Fulminant Ulcerative Colitis - Hereditary Colorectal Cancer and Polyposis Syndromes - Adenocarcinoma of the Colon and Rectum - Motility Disorders; new Thorax Section - new chapters on common problems and procedures, including Dysphagia, Chest Wall Mass, Chest Wall Procedures, Paralyzed Diaphragm; and an expanded Vascular Section - new chapters include Acute Mesenteric Ischemia, Mesenteric Revascularization Procedures, Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting, Endovascualr Procedures for Renovascular Disease, and Repair of Femoral and Popliteal Artery Aneurysms.