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.
- Exame abdominal
- Abdominal hernias
- Dor abdominal
- Dor abdominal na gravidez
- abdômen agudo
- Dor abdominal aguda em crianças
- Crise adrenal
- Anal carcinoma
- Fissura anal
- Aneurysms and dissection of arteries
- Anorectal abscess
- Aortic dissection
- Aortic regurgitation
- Apendicite
- Ascites
- Ascites tapping
- Baby colic
- Cirurgia bariátrica
- Benign breast disease
- Bladder cancer
- Síndrome do intestino cego
- Blind treatment of bacterial infection
- Bowel ischaemia
- Câncer de mama
- Breast lumps and breast examination
- Breast pain
- Caesarean section
- Carcinoid tumours
- Cardiac transplant
- Cholangitis
- Chronic diarrhoea in adults
- Circumcision
- Câncer colorretal
- Complicações pós-operatórias comuns
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
- Congenital gastrointestinal malformations
- Coronary artery bypass grafting
- Corticosteroids and corticosteroid replacement therapy
- Doença de Crohn
- Diverticular disease
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
- Cistos epididimários
- Epididymo-orchitis
- Epigastric pain
- Essence of surgery
- Exomphalos and gastroschisis
- Familial breast cancer
- Femoral hernias
- Gallstone ileus
- Gallstones and cholecystitis
- Gangrena
- General aspects of chemotherapy
- Genitourinary history and examination - female
- Histórico e exame geniturinário - masculino
- Genitourinary prolapse
- Graft-vs-host disease
- Gynaecomastia
- Hemorroidas
- Hérnia de hiato
- Hydatid disease
- Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- Inguinal hernias
- Intestinal obstruction and ileus
- Intra-abdominal sepsis and abscesses
- Intracranial abscesses
- Intussusception in children
- Keratoplasty
- Dor na fossa ilíaca esquerda
- Dor no quadrante superior esquerdo
- 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
- Prolapso da válvula mitral
- Nasogastric (Ryles) tubes
- Neck lumps and bumps
- Ogilvie's syndrome
- Organ donation
- Paget's disease of breast
- Pelvic abscesses
- Dor pélvica
- Peritonsillar abscess
- Radiografia abdominal simples
- Pre-operative assessment - examination and tests
- Precautions for patients on steroids undergoing surgery
- Puerperal mastitis
- Rectal bleeding in adults
- Sangramento retal em crianças
- Rectal prolapse
- Dor abdominal recorrente em crianças
- Renal replacement therapy and transplantation
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis
- Dor na fossa ilíaca direita
- 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
- Drenos cirúrgicos
- Surgical emergencies in childhood
- Testicular cancer
- Thyroid disease and surgery
- Tracheostomy
- Ulcer surgery and its complications
- Colite ulcerativa
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Urolitíase
- Varicocele
- Veias varicosas
- Volvulus and midgut malrotations