This is a comprehensive textbook of surgery for the trainee studying for the postgraduate MRCS/FRCS qualifications. It has now established itself as a core text for this market, recommended on almost all reading lists, and is the only major text linked to the Royal College of Surgeons distance learning (STEP) course. It also serves as an excellent reference text for practising qualified general surgeons. Features: * Editors and contributors represent the best and brightest of British surgeons * Fully updated text, structured closely around the MRCS/FRCS examinations * Is recommended for the STEP distance learning course, and is on the reading list of most of the independent MRCS/FRCS exam courses * Has been adopted as recommended reading by the RCS of Edinburgh * Very well illustrated and comprehensively referenced throughout * Comprehensive Orthopaedic Surgery section New to this edition: * The editors have reduced some areas of the first edition that were not as relevant to the current examinations, and have added a section on orthopaedics. * Around 100 new line illustrations have been drawn up to better illustrate key surgical procedures * All chapters are revised and fully updated to include new techniques such as minimally invasive surgery and the recent advances in imaging * A comprehensive Orthopaedic surgery section has been added, enabling the trainee to learn the required orthopaedics material for the examinations without purchasing a separate textbook