- This addition to the prestigious series of Recent Advances in Surgery is completelyrevised and updated. Written by experienced senior and most credible experts, usingsymptom-based scenarios to comprehensively explore a range of issues with whichpracticing surgeons and students need to be familiar to evolve into competentmedical practitioners. It chronicles some of the challenges which have beenencountered by surgical practitioners around the world through innovation and newtechniques- This book providing updates on various areas of surgery, is a reminder of its value ingrowth and evolution. It includes a chapter on how to manage mass casualties indisasters and terrorist attacks which is sadly becoming the need of the hour. Stem cellresearch and tissue engineering are being viewed as the hope for future- The role of radioisotopes in management of endocrine disease, molecular approachto treatment, genetics, interventional radiology and the biomechanical insight intowound healing, depict a healthy integration of various scientific disciplines- The six sigma methodology illustrates the extent to which surgical care, like any otherfield needs quality improvement tools
