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The most authoritative, comprehensive, and clinically focused guide to operative thoracic surgery – updated with the latest techniques and technologies A  Doody's Core Title for 2023! Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery is a thorough, hands-on guide to the practice of general thoracic surgery. The book covers the entire range of thoracic surgical techniques and management, along with crucial preoperative evaluation, staging, and postoperative strategies. Broad in scope and straightforward in style and presentation, this classic is an outstanding reference for any clinician in need of a comprehensive description of the clinical nature of general thoracic surgery. The focus of this third edition is on providing cutting-edge and up-to-date procedural and clinical management instructions in a field that is constantly changing. The previous edition highlighted minimally invasive, endoscopic, and robotic techniques, and this new edition will even further emphasize these developing technologies. More than 600 full color illustrations, drawn specifically for this book, enhance the text. Essential for residents preparing for a case, surgeons seeking management tips, and surgeons preparing for board recertification, Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery features a logical organization based on anatomy, and each section has an overview chapter summarizing the relevant anatomy, pathophysiology, and diagnostic and procedural options. Operations and diagnostic procedures are highlighted throughout the book in succinct, illustrated technique chapters.  

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David Sugarbaker, MD, (Houston, TX) Professor and Chief of Thoracic Surgery; Director, Lung Institute; and Olga Keith Wiess Chair in Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine. Raphael Bueno, MD, (Boston, MA) Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery; Co-Director, Brigham & Women's Lung Center; Vice Chair of Surgery for Cancer and Translational Research; and Fredric G. Levin Distinguished Chair in Thoracic Surgery and Lung Cancer Research; Brigham and Women's Hospital; and Professor, Harvard Medical School. Bryan M. Burt, MD, (Houston, TX) Director, General Thoracic Surgery Research; Associate Chief, General Thoracic Surgery; and Associate Professor of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine. Shawn Groth, MD, (Houston, TX) Director of Esophageal Surgical Services, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center; and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine. Gabriel Loor, MD, (Houston, TX) Co-Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Director, Lung Transplant Program, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center; and Associate Professor of Surgery, Cardiothoracic Transplant and Circulatory Support, Baylor College of Medicine. Andrea S. Wolf, MD, MPH (New York, NY) Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice; and Assistant Professor, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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