Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence

by Jeffrey A. Norton (Editor), Alfred E. Chang (Editor), R. Randal Bollinger (Editor)

An up-to-the-minute, clinically oriented, and encyclopedic textbook of general surgery for all surgical residents, general surgeons, and medical students. Divided into eight sections, the text brings together the emerging leaders in surgery to concisely present and synthesize the key issues in the different surgical disciplines. Each chapter presents anatomy, physiology and associated scientific development, disease etiology and prevention, appropriate diagnostic procedures, treatment of benign and malignant disease, and well illustrated, technical discussion of how-to-do surgery. Color-coded tables summarize the evidence currently available for a wide variety of surgical treatment options. The text is augmented by a specially comisioned art program with more than 1000 illustrations to clearly depict surgical techniques. A CD-ROM packaged with the text provides a hypertext link to PubMed for every reference - invaluable for research.

2170 pages, Hardcover

First published August 17, 2000

About the author

Dr. Jeffrey Norton officially retired from Stanford Surgery on September 1, 2023. Norton was a surgeon scientist for more than 40 years.
Norton began is medical career at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. He graduated in 1973 and went on to do his residency in general surgery at Duke University in North Carolina followed by a fellowship in surgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD.
Norton joined Stanford in 2003. During his tenure, he served as Chief of the General Surgery from 2006 to 2019 and Chief of Surgical Oncology from 2003 to 2020.
Over his career, Norton published more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals and served on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals including Editor-in-Chief of Surgical Oncology from 1992-2006. He also won multiple awards for teaching.
A dinner was held the evening of Thursday, October 12 to honor Norton and included speeches by Drs. George Poultsides, Chief of the Surgical Oncology Section, and Dr. Mary T. Hawn, Chair of the Department, as well as Sir Murray F. Brennan. On Friday, October 13 a Festschrift was held to to celebrate the width and breadth of Norton's work throughout his career with presentations by his mentees and colleagues.
Norton has been recalled as a professor emeritus to continue his design and conduct experiments on Cancer Associated Fibroblasts (CAFs) to improve Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) treatment.