Surgical Scars: A field guide

You're standing in your surgical examination looking at a patient's abdomen. The examiner asks you to comment on the scars you can see. What are you going to say? Help is at hand... Keaton Jones takes you though positions of scars on the abdomen, how old they are and what the operation might have been. Kochers, roof top, mercedes benz and Rutherford- Morrison incisions are covered amongst all the other incisions and combinations of scars from open and laparoscopic operations which will give you clues to previous procedures and diagnosis. Essential viewing for surgical finals and good revision for MRCS viva Keaton Jones is an academic clinical fellow in surgery at the University of Oxford, UK