《Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery》是一部经典外科学著作，为医学本科生和受培训外科医师必读的基本教材。该系列教材内容综合、全面，几乎覆盖了外科所有的领域；语言凝练、明快，布局层次分明、图文并茂，极富阅读性，书中配有大量(1000余幅)的临床彩色与黑白图片、临床精要、学习要点，使读者易于阅读、理解与掌握。该教材可供全国高等学校或医药院校八年制(或七年制)医学生和研究生及青年外科医生使用。

本书为第1卷，主要介绍了外科学基础等内容。

Volume 1 Basic Surgery

Chapter 1  Introduction

Chapter 2  Diagnostic and interventional radiology

Chapter 3  Preparing a patient for surgery

Chapter 4  Anaesthesia and pain management

Chapter 5  Acute life support and critical care: fluid,electrolyte and acid-base balance and blood transfusion

Chapter 6  Nutrition

Chapter 7  Wounds, tissue repair and scars

Chapter 8  Basic surgical skills and anastomoses

Chapter 9  Principles of laparoscopic surgery

Chapter l0 Wound infection 

Chapter 11 Sterile precautions and theatre safety

Chapter 12 Parasitic infections

Chapter 13 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Chapter 14 Transplantation

Chapter 15 Cysts, ulcers and sinuses

Chapter 16 Principles of oncology

Chapter 17 Day surgery

Chapter 18 An approach to surgical audit

Chapter 19 Clinical trials and statistics

Chapter 20 Surgical ethics

Chapter 21 Plastic and reconstructive surgery

Chapter 22 Burns

Chapter 23 Accident and emergency surgery

Chapter 24 Warfare injuries

Chapter 25 Postoperative care

Appendix -- Tetanus

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Volume 2 Orthopedics

Chapter 26 Clinical examination in musculoskeletal disorders

Chapter 27 Musculoskeletal imaging

Chapter 28 Fractures and dislocations

Chapter 29 Problems in the shoulder and elbow

Chapter 30 Pelvic and acetabular fractures

Chapter 31 Lower limb trauma

Chapter 32 Surgery for arthritis in the hip and knee

Chapter 33 Diseases of bones and joints: infection ..

Chapter 34 Bone tumours

Chapter 35 Diseases of the bones, joints and connective tissues

Chapter 36 Paediatric orthopaedics: normal development and congenital disorders

Chapter 37 Paediatric orthopaedics: diseases of the growing skeleton

Chapter 38 Sports medicine and biomechanics

Chapter 39 Wrist and hand

Chapter 40 The foot

Chapter 41 Neurological disorders and the musculoskeletal system

Chapter 42 The spine, vertebral column and spinal cord

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Volume 30torhinolaryngology, Head and Neck,

 Cardiothoracic and Endocrine Surgery

Chapter 43 The eye and orbit

Chapter 44 Cleft lip and palate: developmental abnormalities of the face,mouth and jaws

Chapter 45 Maxillofacial injuries

Chapter 46 The nose and sinuses

Chapter 47 The ear

Chapter 48 Oral and oropharyngeal cancer

Chapter 49 Disorders of the salivary glands

Chapter 50 Pharynx, larynx and neck

Chapter 51 The thyroid gland and the thyroglossal tract

Chapter 52 Parathyroid and adrenal glands

Chapter 53 The breast

Chapter 54 The thorax

Chapter 55 Cardiac surgery

Chapter 56 The oesophagus

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Volume 4 Neurosurgery, Urinary and Vascular Surgery

Chapter 57 Nerves

Chapter 58 Craniocerebral trauma

Chapter 59 Elective neurosurgery

Chapter 60 Urinary symptoms,investigation of the

      urinary tract and anuria

Chapter 61 The kidneys and ureters

Chapter 62 The urinary bladder

Chapter 63 The prostate and seminal vesicles

Chapter 64 The urethra and penis

Chapter 65 Testis and scrotum

Chapter 66 Arterial disorders

Chapter 67 Venous disorders

Chapter 68 Lymphoedema

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Volume 5 Abdominal and Pediatric Surgery

Chapter 69 Stomach and duodenum

Chapter 70 The liver

Chapter 71 The spleen

Chapter 72 The gall bladder and bile ducts

Chapter 73 The pancreas

Chapter 74 The peritoneum, omentum, mesentery and retroperitoneal space

Chapter 75 The small and large intestines

Chapter 76 Intestinal obstruction

Chapter 77 The vermiform appendix

Chapter 78 The rectum

Chapter 79 The anus and anal canal

Chapter 80 Hernias, umbilicus and abdominal wall

Chapter 81 Principles of paediatric surgery

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