100 Cases In Surgery

A 64-year-old woman has been referred to the on-call general surgical team by her GP. She has been complaining of pain in the upper part of her abdomen and generalized itching. Her daughter has also noticed a yellowish discolouration of her skin. The symptoms started a week ago and are gradually getting worse. You have been assigned her initial assessment...

100 Cases in Surgery presents 100 scenarios requiring surgical treatment commonly seen by medical students and junior doctors in the emergency department or outpatient clinic. A succinct summary of the patient's history, examination, and initial investigations―including photographs where relevant―is followed by questions on the diagnosis and management of each case. The answer includes a detailed discussion on each topic, with further illustration where appropriate, providing an essential revision aid as well as a practical guide for students and junior doctors.

Making speedy and appropriate clinical decisions, and choosing the best course of action to take as a result, is one of the most important and challenging parts of training to become a doctor. These true-to-life cases will teach students and junior doctors to recognize important surgical conditions, and help to develop their diagnostic and management skills.

Contents:
* GENERAL AND COLORECTAL (20 cases)
1: A LUMP IN THE GROIN
2: RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA PAINCASE
3: ABDOMINAL DISTENSION POST HIP REPLACEMENTCASE
4: PERIANAL PAINCASE
5: SUSPICIOUS MOLECASE
6: ABDOMINAL PAIN, DISTENSION AND VOMITINGCASE
7: PER RECTAL BLEEDINGCASE
8: SWELLING IN THE GROINCASE
9: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF LOWER ABDOMINAL PAINCASE
10: SMALL-BOWEL ANOMALYCASE
11: A RECTAL MASSCASE
12: INVESTIGATION OF ANAEMIACASE
13: ABDOMINAL DISTENSION AND PAINCASE
14: ANAL PAINCASE
15: ABSOLUTE CONSTIPATIONCASE
16: LEFT ILIAC FOSSA PAINCASE
17: BRIGHT RED RECTAL BLEEDINGCASE
18: CHANGE IN BOWEL HABITCASE
19: LOOSE STOOLS, WEIGHT LOSS AND RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA PAINCASE
20: INCREASED BOWEL FREQUENCY AND RECTAL BLEEDING

* UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL (16)
21: RIGHT UPPER QUADRANT PAINCASE
22: EPIGASTRIC PAIN AND VOMITINGCASE
23: FEVER, PAIN AND JAUNDICECASE
24: SUDDEN-ONSET EPIGASTRIC PAINCASE
25: ABDOMINAL TRAUMACASE
26: HEPATOMEGALYCASE
27: LONG-STANDING GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUXCASE
28: DIFFICULTY IN SWALLOWINGCASE
29: PAINLESS JAUNDICECASE
30: INTERMITTENT ABDOMINAL PAINCASE
31: POSTOPERATIVE