This book is edited by a team of experts from across the globe. Kirby I. Bland, MD, is based at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, in the USA, where he is the Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, and the Deputy Director at the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Michael G. Sarr, MD is the James C. Marson Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN in the USA. Markus W. Büchler, MD, is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Attila Csendes, MD FACS(Hon) is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University Hospital in Santiago, Chile. O. James Garden, MBChB MD FRCS(Ed) FRCP(Ed) FRACS(Hon), is the Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the UK. John Wong, BSc(Med(Syd)) MBBS(Syd) PhD(Syd) MD(Hon(Syd)) FRACS FRCS(Edin) FRCS(Glasg) FACS(Hon) is the Chair Professor for the Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong and Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, China.

Illustrated throughout with anatomical and technical figures, this concise yet comprehensive review covers all the basic operative principles essential to oncological surgical therapy, including benign and malignant problems in breast and skin soft tissues.

Each chapter begins with a list of the most poignant specificed applications for treatment of surgical disease and the failures that may be expected when such diagnostic approaches, technique and therapy are not utilized, helping the reader to focus in on the most take-home points of the chapter -Consistent layout enables quick and easy reference -Edited by a group of leading experts in the field from across the globe, making for an international approach

Part 1: Breast.- Benign Breast Disease: Diagnosis and Assessment.- Malignant Breast Disease: Diagnosis and Assessment.- High Risk Indicators: Microscopic Lesions, Personal and Family History, Assessment, and Management.- Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: Ductal and Lobular Origin.- Breast Carcinoma: Stages I and II.- Locally Advanced Breast Cancer.- Metastatic Carcinomas of the Breast.- Reconstruction of the Breast.- Part 2: Skin Soft Tissues.- Evaluation of Malignant and Premalignant Skin Lesions.- Staging and Treatment Options for Cutaneous Melanoma.- Technique and Application of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in MelanomaSurgical Treatment of Malignant Melanoma.- Surgical and Medical Management of Locally Advanced and Systemic Melanoma.- Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Extremities and Chest Wall.

Surgery in Breast Cancer and Melanoma provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to oncological surgical therapy. The chapters provide pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with benign and malignant problems in the breast and skin soft tissues. Stages of operative approaches with relevant technical considerations are outlined in an easily understandable manner. Complications are reviewed when appropriate for the organ system and problem. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict anatomic or technical principles. A concise, handbook-sized reference work, this book is a valuable resource for all general surgeons and residents in training.