This brand new Manual focuses on soft tissue surgery of the head, neck and thorax. Together with its companion volume, the BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Abdominal Surgery, it highlights for the veterinary surgeon in general practice the most commonly performed techniques. Procedures that are undertaken by those surgeons with more experience are also discussed so that practitioners can better inform their clients as to clinical options.



Demystifies common surgical techniques
Focus on most common conditions encountered in practice
Organ and systems based approach
Step-by-step Operative Techniques
Full colour photographs and specially commissioned illustrations throughout

Contents

Principles of head, neck and thoracic surgery; Surgical materials and instrumentation; The oral cavity and oropharynx; The nose and nasopharynx; The ear; Emergency management of respiratory distress; Brachycephalic airway disease; The larynx; The extrathoracic trachea; The oesophagus; The thyroid and parathyroid glands; Thoracic wall anatomy and surgical approaches; The pleural cavity and its drainage; The intrathoracic trachea and mainstem bronchi; The lung; Heart (including pericardium) and great vessels; The mediastinum; The diaphragm; Appendix: Conversion tables; Index.