This book is aimed at the General Surgical Trainee who is embarking on Higher Surgical Training (HST).

This book is aimed at the General Surgical Trainee who is embarking on Higher Surgical Training (HST) and its structure closely follows the current HST syllabus. It therefore builds on Fundamentals of Surgical Practice to provide the detail required for this readership and in particular, includes full details of all of the operative techniques that the candidate is expected to be familiar with. Fully illustrated throughout, and featuring high quality surgical line drawings, it will be an essential purchase for the candidate embarking on higher surgical training and taking the next important step in their surgical career.

1. The oral cavity and salivary glands
2. Pharyngeal and oesophageal motility disorders
3. Neoplasms of the oesophagus
4. Surgical aspects of peptic ulcer disease
5. Gastric cancer
6. The small bowel
7. Acute pancreatitis: pathophysiology
8. Surgical complications of acute pancreatitis
9. Chronic pancreatitis
10. Neoplasms of the pancreas
11. The liver
12. Neoplasms of the liver
13. Biliary tract
14. Spleen, lymph nodes, soft tissue sarcomas and retroperitoneal tumours
15. Lower GI tract: large bowel obstruction
16. Crohn's disease
17. Ulcerative colitis
18. Neoplasms of the colon and rectum
19. The anorectum
20. Therapeutic colonoscopy
21. General principles of endoscopic surgery
22. Instrumentation and perioperative management in laparoscopic surgery
23. Basic laparoscopic procedures
24. Intermediate laparoscopic procedures
25. Breast disease: diagnostic methods
26. Benign breast disorders
27. Management of breast cancer
28. Advanced breast cancer
29. Epidemiology, screening and clinical trials in breast cancer
30. Breast reconstruction
31. Pituitary
32. Thyroid
33. Parathyroids
34. The adrenal gland
35. Diagnostic techniques in vascular surgery
36. Vascular trauma
37. Aneurysms
38. Therapy in peripheral arterial disease
39. Extracranial carotid disease and vertebral disease
40. Venous disease
41. Vasculitis
42. Transplantation immunology
43. Organ donation
44. Renal transplantation
45. Liver transplantation
46. Paediatric surgery of the upper GI tract
47. Paediatric surgery of the small and large bowel
48. Paediatric trauma
49. Paediatric tumours
50. General paediatric urology
51. Spinal dysraphism
52. Clinical governance.