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