Rehearse for life in clinical practice with this easy-to-use and unique series, which combines cases drawn from real-life experiences with a refreshing approach to presentations as you would see them in day-to-day situations. Get the most from clinical practice, with "Clinical Cases Uncovered". Packed full with over 120 cases, this comprehensive title on the surgical management of conditions will be your core revision text. Featuring everything you need to know on surgery, Professor Harold Ellis and Christopher Watson have left nothing out. Whether it's a gastric ulcer or an intercranial mass shown up on an MR scan, you can work your way through with "Clinical Cases Uncovered".

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* How to use this book.

Part 1: Basics

Approach to the patient.

Part 2: Cases

Case 1 Postoperative dyspnoea
Case 2 Inside out
Case 3 A wound leak
Case 4 An inflamed neck
Case 5 Postoperative infection
Case 6 A sore neck
Case 7 Hidden infection
Case 8 Burnt thorax
Case 9 Burn treatment
Case 10 Lumps on the scalp
Case 11 A lump on the wrist
Case 12 Recurrent abscesses over the sacrum
Case 13 A septic great toe
Case 14 A skin tumour
Case 15 Two old gentlemen with facial ulceration
Case 16 A pigmented spot on the face
Case 17 A pigmented skin lesion that has got bigger
Case 18 Lump on the chest wall
Case 19 A patient with a chest drain
Case 20 A fatal lung disease
Case 21 A pulsating abdominal mass
Case 22 Abdominal bruising
Case 23 A painful calf
Case 24 Black toes
Case 25 A useful instrument in vascular surgery
Case 26 A young woman with cold hands
Case 27 A complication of varicose veins
Case 28 A chronic leg ulcer
Case 29 Another leg ulcer
Case 30 A cerebral mass on magnetic resonance imaging
Case 31 A cerebral vascular catastrophe
Case 32 A baby with a large head
Case 33 A blow to the skull
Case 34 A severe head injury
Case 35 Another severe head injury
Case 36 A spinal abnormality in a newborn child
Case 37 Back injury
Case 38 A lacerated wrist
Case 39 A hand deformity
Case 40 A deformed finger
Case 41 A boy with a droopy eyelid
Case 42 A lump on the lip
Case 43 A white plaque on the tongue
Case 44 A baby with two gross congenital deformities
Case 45 A painful submandibular swelling
Case 46 A lump over the angle of the jaw
Case 47 A patient with difficulty swallowing
Case 48 Another patient with difficulty in swallowing
Case 49 A third patient with dysphagia
Case 50 Heartburn
Case 51 Vomiting in a baby
Case 52 A gastric ulcer
Case 53 A bloody vomit
Case 54 An acute abdominal emergency
Case 55 A fateful vomit
Case 56 A serious gastric lesion
Case 57 A surgical specimen of stomach
Case 58 An acutely painful, distended abdomen
Case 59 Neonatal intestinal obstruction
Case 60 A very constipated small boy
Case 61 A painful distended abdomen in an old man
Case 62 An unusual case of severe rectal bleeding in a child
Case 63 An abdominal mass in a young man
Case 64 A striking and diagnostic facial appearance
Case 65 Acute abdomen in a medical student
Case 66 Yet another mass in the right iliac fossa
Case 67 A symptomless finding on a barium enema examination
Case 68 Ulcerative colitis
Case 69 A complication of longstanding ulcerative colitis
Case 70 A very old woman with an abdominal mass
Case 71 A patient with subacute obstruction
Case 72 A pathological anal verge
Case 73 A painful mass at the anal verge
Case 74 Another painful mass at the anal verge
Case 75 An agonizing anal verge
Case 76 A very painful buttock
Case 77 A patient with recurrent perianal sepsis
Case 78 A prolapsing anal mass
Case 79 An ulcer in the rectum
Case 80 An ulcer at the anal verge
Case 81 A large swelling in the groin
Case 82 A groin lump in an old woman
Case 83 A lump at the umbilicus
Case 84 A swelling in the abdominal wall
Case 85 A jaundiced and very ill patient
Case 86 A postmortem finding
Case 87 A man with a grossly swollen abdomen
Case 88 A massive haematemesis
Case 89 A schoolmistress with attacks of abdominal pain
Case 90 A collection of calculi
Case 91 A patient with jaundice and interesting physical signs
Case 92 The patient in Case 91 has surgery
Case 93 A giant abdominal mass
Case 94 A severe abdominal injury
Case 95 A painless lump in the neck
Case 96 Swollen legs in a young woman
Case 97 A frightened girl with a breast lump
Case 98 Breast screening
Case 99 An ulcerating breast lesion
Case 100 A sinister break
Case 101 A woman with a sore nipple
Case 102 A painless lump in the neck
Case 103 A young immigrant with a lump in the neck
Case 104 A lump in the neck that moves on swallowing
Case 105 A woman with an obvious endocrine disease
Case 106 A mass of cervical lymph nodes
Case 107 A rapidly enlarging mass in the neck
Case 108 A patient with colic, and its endocrine underlying cause
Case 109 A girl with hirsutes
Case 110 Congenital disease of both kidneys
Case 111 Haematuria of sinister origin
Case 112 A gross congenital abnormality
Case 113 A bladder stone found at autopsy
Case 114 An insidius cause of lumbago
Case 115 A man with difficulty passing urine and with an interesting X-ray
Case 116 Sciatica with a sinister cause
Case 117 A patient with a very distended bladder
Case 118 A foreskin problem in a child
Case 119 An ulcerated prepuce
Case 120 A missing testis
Case 121 A swelling in the scrotum
Case 122 Two examples of testicular tumours
Case 123 A renal transplant recipient with a gastrointestinal haemorrhage

Part 3: Self-assessment

* MCQs
* EMQs
* SAQs
* Answers
* Index of cases by diagnosis
* Index