More than 800 instruments and tips associated with official names, common nicknames, and descriptions of instrument features, categories, and uses including common types of clamping, grasping, cutting, and retracting instruments, instruments for specialized procedures (such as bowel, thyroid or breast surgery), cutting loops, and the parts that make up cystoscopes and resectoscopes, orthopedic drills and saw blades, and instruments used in microscopic and endoscopic surgery.

Includes index.

Special topics -- General instruments, staplers -- General laparoscopic instruments -- Robotic instruments -- OB-GYN instruments -- Urology instruments -- Orthopedic instruments -- Neurosurgical instruments -- Cardiothoracic and vascular instruments -- Ear, nose, and throat Instruments -- Dental and maxillofacial instruments -- Ophthalmologic instruments.