Exclusive photographs and illustrations are incorporated relevant to topics. • Text material is adequately updated to meet the requirements of undergraduates, postgraduates and students appearing for entrance examinations as well as surgical practitioners. • CBME syllabus is included and accordingly topics are added appropriately. • Online MCQs are given for each chapter so that students can prepare for entrance examinations also. • Recent advances, newer therapeutic modalities, concepts are added at suitable places in all chapters. • Case scenarios are added in many important chapters so that students understand the subject and can apply these in managing the surgical patients. • Clinical examination videos are added to important chapters so that students can correlate clinically also