Practical Small Surgery (Second Edition)

Author: Xu Huajin, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-09-11
Features: While surgical procedures can be categorized as major or minor and vary in difficulty, there is no clear boundary or precise definition for such classifications. The distinction between major and minor surgeries is relative and lacks absolute limits. In clinical surgical departments, various minor surgeries are performed almost every day, such as drainage incisions, punctures and lavages, debridement and suture, reduction and fixation, dressing changes, biopsy specimen removal, excision of superficial tumors, tissue transplantation, and defect repair. In addition to the aforementioned procedures, this book also includes other surgeries that can be performed under local anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, or without special conditions or equipment, collectively referred to as minor surgeries. This book is a multidisciplinary guide to minor surgeries, designed to serve multiple purposes, and thus we have specially invited experienced clinical physicians from various surgical departments (surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and stomatology) of Beijing Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University to contribute chapters. It emphasizes clinical practice, focusing on the indications for surgery, procedural steps and key points, as well as intraoperative and postoperative precautions. The book is highly practical and readable, making it particularly suitable for reference by young physicians.