General surgery resources for healthcare professionals
This professional section focuses on general surgery, offering in-depth content for healthcare professionals involved in diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management. You'll find articles exploring key clinical considerations, guideline updates, and common challenges encountered in real-world practice. Each piece is written or reviewed by UK clinicians to ensure relevance and accuracy for multidisciplinary teams.
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- Abdominal examination
- Abdominal hernias
- Abdominal pain
- Abdominal pain in pregnancy
- Acute abdomen
- Acute abdominal pain in children
- Adrenal crisis
- Anal carcinoma
- Anal fissure
- Aneurysms and dissection of arteries
- Anorectal abscess
- Aortic dissection
- Aortic regurgitation
- Appendicitis
- Ascites
- Ascites tapping
- Baby colic
- Bariatric surgery
- Benign breast disease
- Bladder cancer
- Blind loop syndrome
- Blind treatment of bacterial infection
- Bowel ischaemia
- Breast cancer
- Breast lumps and breast examination
- Breast pain
- Caesarean section
- Carcinoid tumours
- Cardiac transplant
- Cholangitis
- Chronic diarrhoea in adults
- Circumcision
- Colorectal cancer
- Common postoperative complications
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Congenital gastrointestinal malformations
- Coronary artery bypass grafting
- Corticosteroids and corticosteroid replacement therapy
- Crohn's disease
- Diverticular disease
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
- Epididymal cysts
- Epididymo-orchitis
- Epigastric pain
- Essence of surgery
- Exomphalos and gastroschisis
- Familial breast cancer
- Femoral hernias
- Gallstone ileus
- Gallstones and cholecystitis
- Gangrene
- General aspects of chemotherapy
- Genitourinary history and examination - female
- Genitourinary history and examination - male
- Genitourinary prolapse
- Graft-vs-host disease
- Gynaecomastia
- Haemorrhoids
- Hiatus hernia
- Hydatid disease
- Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- Inguinal hernias
- Intestinal obstruction and ileus
- Intra-abdominal sepsis and abscesses
- Intracranial abscesses
- Intussusception in children
- Keratoplasty
- Left iliac fossa pain
- Left upper quadrant pain
- Liver cysts and abscesses
- Liver transplantation
- Loin pain
- Lumps in the groin and scrotum
- Mammary duct ectasia and periductal mastitis
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Minor surgery in primary care
- Mitral valve prolapse
- Nasogastric (Ryles) tubes
- Neck lumps and bumps
- Ogilvie's syndrome
- Organ donation
- Paget's disease of breast
- Pelvic abscesses
- Pelvic pain
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Plain abdominal X-ray
- Pre-operative assessment - examination and tests
- Precautions for patients on steroids undergoing surgery
- Puerperal mastitis
- Rectal bleeding in adults
- Rectal bleeding in children
- Rectal prolapse
- Recurrent abdominal pain in children
- Renal replacement therapy and transplantation
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis
- Right iliac fossa pain
- Right upper quadrant pain
- Salivary gland disorders
- Screening for the early detection of colorectal cancer
- Spinal cord compression
- Spinal cord injury
- Splenectomy and hyposplenism
- Splenomegaly and hypersplenism
- Stoma care
- Surgical drains
- Surgical emergencies in childhood
- Testicular cancer
- Thyroid disease and surgery
- Tracheostomy
- Ulcer surgery and its complications
- Ulcerative colitis
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Urolithiasis
- Varicocele
- Varicose veins
- Volvulus and midgut malrotations