Written by leaders in the field, Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving, provides surgical residents and house staff with a current, concise and algorithmic approach to frequently encountered clinical challenges. Over 100 chapters detail every common surgical disease in the form of a succinct text coupled with a step-by-step algorithm. Each chapter walks the reader through the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the most common surgical problems.

Assessing Preoperative Cardiac Risk in Patients Undergoing Non-Cardiac Surgery.- Preoperative Bleeding Disorders.- Preoperative Nutritional Assessment.- Preoperative Evaluation.- Acute Transfusion Reactions.- Intraoperative Coagulopathy.- Asymptomatic Carotid Bruits.- HIV Precautions.- Hypertension.- Initial Post-operative Assessment.- Initial Assessment and Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient.- Head Trauma.- Hemothorax.- Management of the Difficult Airway.- Penetrating Neck Trauma.- Penetrating Chest Injury.- Penetrating Abdominal Injury.- Blunt Abdominal Trauma.- Pelvic Fractures.- Traumatic Hematuria.- Chronic Lower Extremity Ischemia.- The Acute Cold Leg.- Extracranial Cerebrovascular Disease.- Myocardial Infarction.- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.- Thyroid Nodules.- Cushing's Syndrome.- Hyperthyroidism.- Hypercalcemia.- Insulinoma.- Gastrinoma.- Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors.- Endocrine Hypertension.- Chronic Pancreatitis.- Small Bowel Obstruction.- Ischemic Bowel.- Enterocutaneous Fistulas.- Crohn's Disease.- Ulcerative Colitis.- Right Lower Quadrant Pain.- Right Upper Quadrant Pain.- Acute Abdomen.- Diverticulitis.- Large Bowel Obstruction.- Colon Cancer.- Rectal Cancer.- Anal Abscesses/Fistula.- Hemorrhoids.- Diarrhea.- Acute Pelvic Pain.- Hematemesis.- Lower Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.- Incidental Cholelithiasis.- Symptomatic Cholelithiasis.- Obstructive Jaundice.- Liver Mass.- Acute Pancreatitis.- Ulcer Disease.- Dysphagia.- Rectal Bleeding.- Inguinal Hernia.- Splenomegaly.- Rectal Pain.- Bleeding Esophageal Varices.- Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis.- Pediatric Rectal Bleeding.- Pediatric Jaundice.- Pediatric Abdominal Mass.- Esophageal Atresia/Tracheoesophageal Fistula.- Abdominal Pain.- Hirschsprung's Disease.- Hematuria.- Nephrolithiasis.- Prostatism.-Testicular Mass.- Urinary Tract Infections.- Painful Scrotum.- Back Pain.- Hip Injury.- Knee Injury.- Long Bone Fracture.- Solitary Pulmonary Nodules.- Pleural Effusion.- ARDS.- Nosocomial Pneumonia.- Melanoma.- Hidradenitis Suppurativa.- Palpable Breast Mass.- Abnormal Mammogram.- Invasive Breast Cancer.- Nipple Discharge.- Breast Pain.- Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ.- Parotid Mass.- Carcinoma of the Larynx.- Stridor.- Neck Mass Evaluation.- Epistaxis.- Diabetic Ketoacidosis.- Oliguria.- Hypoxia.- Post-operative Fever.- Hypercalcemic Crisis.- Postoperative Chest Pain.- Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias.- Guidelines for Cancer Screening.- Anal Cancer.- Empyema.