Surgical Signs: Colour Guide (Colour Guides) - Softcover

A pocket-size colour atlas illustrating with high-quality photographs all common physical signs that indicate a need for surgery. This useful reference offers students access to a wealth of clinical photographs at a low cost. It is also an excellent review resource for students preparing for examinations. The illustrations are accompanied by a concise text in the popular and successful format of the Colour Guide series.

This colour guide to clinical signs is aimed primarily at undergraduates, but can also be used as a revision aid for postgraduate surgical examinations. The emphasis is on common conditions, but rarer diseases which present with classic clinical features are included. Some common and important conditions produce few specific signs which are difficult to photograph, and depend on special investigation for diagnosis, such as upper gastrointestinal cancer and pancreatitis. There are scans and radiographs for some of these, while others, such as oesophageal carcinoma, have been purposely omitted.