Since Mondors times in the forties of the last century there was no other book in surgery to be written so easy and witty... Boris D. Savchuk World Journal of Surgery This the fifth edition of Scheins Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery builds on the reputation of the four previous editions. Already a worldwide benchmark translated into half a dozen languages this book guides surgeons logically through the minefields of assessment and management of acute surgical abdominal conditions. Tyro