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Gray's Surgical Anatomy

  • 2nd Edition - August 21, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Peter A. Brennan, Susan Standring, Sam M. Wiseman
  • Language: English

Written and edited by expert surgeons in collaboration with a world-renowned anatomist, this exquisitely illustrated reference consolidates surgical, anatomical, and technical kn… Read more

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Written and edited by expert surgeons in collaboration with a world-renowned anatomist, this exquisitely illustrated reference consolidates surgical, anatomical, and technical knowledge for the entire human body in a single volume. Part of the highly respected Gray's family of texts and atlases, this fully revised and updated resource brings to life the applied anatomical knowledge that is critically important in the operating theatre, with a high level of detail to ensure safe and effective surgical practice. Gray's Surgical Anatomy, 2nd Edition, is unique in the field—serving as a textbook of regional anatomy as well as an atlas for operative procedures—making it an invaluable practical resource for surgeons and surgical trainees at all levels of experience, as well as medical students, radiologists, and anatomists.

Gray's Surgical Anatomy is especially appropriate for surgeons in training and has become the “go-to” five-star text for postgraduate examinations where candidates are required to demonstrate a knowledge of applied surgical anatomy.

Key features

  • Expert content written by surgeons for surgeons, overseen by co-editors and internationally recognised surgeons Peter A. Brennan and Sam Wiseman, with all anatomical detail quality assured by co-editor and Gray's Anatomy Editor-in-Chief, Susan Standring; section editors and contributors are global leaders in areas such as head and neck surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, and general surgery
  • Features superb colour photographs from the operating theatre, accompanied by detailed explanatory artwork and figures from the latest imaging modalities, plus summary tables, dozens of cadaveric and intra-operative videos, up-to-date self-assessment questions, and case-based scenarios—making it an ideal reference and learning package for surgeons and trainees at all levels
  • Reflects contemporary practice with chapters logically organised by anatomical region, designed for relevance to surgeons across a wide range of subspecialties, practice types, and clinical settings, and aligned with the requirements of current surgical training curricula
  • Contains new sections on Surgical Anatomy Teaching: Evidenced Based Approaches; Moral Injury/Moral Damage; Endovascular Surgery; and Gender Reassignment Surgery/Transgender Surgery; as well as enhanced coverage of human factors and minimising error; the root of the neck; vascular anatomy; considerations relevant to robotic surgery; and much more
  • Maximises day-to-day practical application with depictions of key anatomical features and relationships that are essential for safe surgical practice throughout, as well as clearly signposted “Tips and Anatomical Hazards”
  • Integrates essential anatomy for robotic and minimal access approaches, including laparoscopic and endoscopic techniques
  • Provides online access to supplementary operative and cadaveric dissections videos and self-assessment material to bring content to life, add further clarity, and test your understanding of key surgical anatomy concepts
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

Surgical trainees and other clinicians interested in surgical anatomy (such as interventional radiologists, anaesthetists/anaesthesiologists). Established consultant surgeons wishing to revise/update their surgical anatomical knowledge. Clinicians involved in emergency medicine, who are often confronted with surgical anatomy in their everyday practice

Table of contents

Section 1: Introduction

1. A short history of surgery

2. Understanding Human factors to improve patient safety and team performance
Peter A. Brennan, Umar Rehman, Mohammad S. Sarwar, Elizabeth S. Brennan, Mike Davidson and Stephen Jarvis

3. Beyond Location and Function: The Evolution of Anatomy Education for Surgeons
Lucas Streith, Faizal Aminmohamed Haji and Sam M. Wiseman

4. Moral Injury – the concept and its implications
Danë Goodsman

Section 2: Head and Neck

5. Overview of the head and neck
Susan Standring, Rabindra P. Singh and Peter A. Brennan

6. Facial bone osteology and naso-ethmoidal complex
Nabeela Ahmed

7. Face and scalp
Velupillai Ilankovan and Tian Ee Seah

8. Orbital anatomy
Daniel van Gijn

9. Orbit and Eye
Daniel Ezra and Laxmi Raja

10. Nose and paranasal sinuses
Claire Hopkins

11. Infratemporal fossa and pterygopalatine fossa
Madan Ethunandan

12. Temporomandibular joint
Ajoy Roychoudhury, Krushna Bhatt and Kamalpreet Kaur

13. Mouth
Niall M H McLeod, Niall Mark Hamilton Mcleod and Elizabeth A. Gruber

14. Salivary glands
Adal Mirza and Emma King

15. External and middle ear
EYTAN A. DAVID

16. Surgical anatomy of the temporal bone
Zachary Kons, Obinna I. Nwosu and Matthew G. Crowson

17. Neck
Peter A. Brennan, Susan Standring and Rabindra P. Singh

18. Pharynx
Eitan Prisman and Cornelius Kürten

19. Larynx
Nicholas Gibbins

20. Thyroid and parathyroid glands
Sam M. Wiseman

Section 3: Neuroanatomy

21. Neurosurgical anatomy
Peter C. Whitfield

22. Surgical Anatomy of the Sellar and Parasellar Regions
Kumar Abhinav, Mustafa Motiwala, Yujiro Obikane and Juan Carlos Fernandez-Miranda

23. Surgical anatomy of the cerebellopontine angle
David Bennett, Aditaya Kumar and William Taylor

24. Surgical Anatomy of the foramen magnum and inferior clivus
Kumar Abhinav, Mustafa Motiwala, Yujiro Obikane, Wei-Hsin Wang and Juan Carlos Fernandez-Miranda

25. Ventricular system
Greg James and Nishchit Hegde

26. Cerebral hemispheres and white matter tracts
Sandip Panesar, Kumar Abhinav, Mustafa Motiwala and Juan Carlos Fernandez-Miranda

27. Cerebral vasculature
Adrian Zammit and Peter C. Whitfield

28. Basal ganglia and thalamus
Erlick A.C. Pereira and Rahul S. Shah

29. Surgical anatomy of the brainstem and pineal region
Kristian Aquilina, Matthew A. Kirkman and Julia Sharma

30. Surgical anatomy of the spinal cord
Erlick A.C. Pereira and Aswin Chari

Section 4: Back and Spine

31. Surgical overview of the back and spine
Aniruddh Agrawal and Jason M. Cuéllar

32. Intervertebral joints, foramina and ligaments
Eli M. Baron and Corey T. Walker

33. Cervical spine
Jason Harvey and Sushmith Ramakrishna Gowda

34. Thoracic spine
Aniruddh Agrawal

35. Lumbar spine, Sacrum and Coccyx
Ronald A. Lehman Jr., Lee A. Tan and Samer Zammar

36. Anatomy of lumbar puncture and epidural analgesia
Christopher Zarembinski

Section 5: Upper Limb

37. Overview of the upper limb
Alistair Charles Ross

38. Supraclavicular and infraclavicular regions
Chye Yew Ng

39. Axilla
Cristian David Valenzuela and John Vetto

40. Shoulder girdle and upper arm
Gev Bhabra, Chetan S. Modi and Neal Rupani

41. Elbow and forearm
Adam C. Watts and Dafydd Edwards

42. Wrist and hand
Grey Giddins and David Joseph Shewring

Section 6: Thorax

43. Overview of the thorax and diaphragm and surgical anatomy of the chest wall
Donna Eaton and Maninder Kalkat

44. Great vessels: ascending aorta, arch, descending aorta, great veins, access
Mark Field, Ahmed Othman, Deborah Harrington, Manoj Kuduvalli and George Gradinariu

45. Oesophagus, thoracic duct and lymphatics
Ravinder Singh Vohra, ASHRAF TOKHI and Neil Welch

46. Pleura and thoracic sympathetic trunk
Sridhar Rathinam and Michael Shackcloth

47. Lungs, bronchi and trachea
Tom Routledge and Carol Tan

48. Thymus
Karen Christina Redmond and Mohammad A. Aladaileh

49. Pericardium, pericardial drainage
Cha Rajakaruna and Neil Cartwright

50. Heart: echocardiographic anatomy for surgeons
Madalina Garbi and Narain Moorjani

51. Mitral and tricuspid valves
Narain Moorjani

52. Aortic valve, aortic root, left ventricular outflow tract and pulmonary valve
Rana Sayeed and Nigel Edward Drury

53. Ventricles, coronary vessels and access to conduits for grafting
Sunil Ohri and Attilio Andrea Lotto

54. Breast, structure and development, lymphatic drainage etc
Doctor Nathalie George Johnson

55. Endovascular surgery
Colin Bicknell and Safa Salim

Section 7: Abdomen

56. Overview of the abdomen
Akie Watanabe and Sam M. Wiseman

57. Anterior Abdominal Wall
Duncan Stephen George Scrimgeour, Sam M. Wiseman and James Noyes

58. Inguinal Region
Daphne Lu, Denise Tami Yamashita and Sam M. Wiseman

59. Posterior abdominal wall and retroperitoneum
Elliot Mitmaker, Rajam Raghunathan and Amin Madani

60. The mesentery, peritoneum and peritoneal cavity
John Calvin Coffey, Peter Dockery and Dara Walsh

61. Abdominal Oesophagus and Stomach
Peter Joseph DiPasco, Erich Matthew Wessel, Luke Vail Selby, Corey Hounschell and Mazin Al-Kasspooles

62. Small intestine
Todd McMullen

63. Colon, rectum and anus
Scott R. Steele, Ayman Khan and Michael Goldenshluger

64. Liver
Elijah Dixon, Amar Gupta and Aaron Dinerman

65. Liver biopsy, resections and brief overview of transplantation
Pilar Leal-Leyte, Daniel Zamora-Valdes and Peter Kim

66. Pancreas, Gall bladder and biliary tree
Jane Wang, Makda Getachew Zewde, Jennifer C. Felix and Adnan Alseidi

67. Spleen
Dimitrios Stefanidis, Wendy Li and Dimitrios I. Athanasiadis

68. Adrenal glands
Adrienne Melck and Aiya Amery

69. Development and congenital anomalies of the gastrointestinal tract and its adnexae
Nathan Wiseman

70. Endoscopic anatomy of the gastrointestinal tract
Adam Veres Weizman, Kyle J. Fortinsky, Youstina Hanna and Jeffrey D. Mosko

Section 8: Pelvic Viscera: Urogenital System

71. Overview of pelvic viscera
Alex Hampson, Oussama Elhage, Charlotte Foley, Timothy Lane, Ben Challacombe and Nikhil Vasdev

72. Urinary tract (kidneys, ureters, bladder)
Ben Challacombe, Ben Pullar, Joris Vangeneugden and Karel Decaestecker

73. Bladder and urethra
Jonathan Kam, Brian Andrew Parsons, Karthik Rajan, Bhavan Prasad Rai, Nikhil Vasdev and Ramesh Thurairaja

74. Pelvic inlet, pelvic floor and perineum
Arun Sahai, Rajesh Nair and Alexis Schizas

75. Male reproductive system
Anthony Emmanuel, Asif Muneer and Majid Shabbir

76. Prostate
Ross Warner, Nikhil Vasdev, Jeremy Teoh and Prokar Dasgupta

77. Female reproductive system
Ahmad and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Sayasneh and Narin Suleyman

78. Gender Reassignment Surgery/Transgender Surgery
Giulio Garaffa, Luca Ongaro, Francesco Claps and Carlo Trombetta

79. Development and congenital anomalies of Urogenital system
Arash K. Taghizadeh and Shabnam Undre

Section 9: Bony Pelvis and Lower Limb

80. Overview of the pelvis and lower limb
R Shane Tubbs

81. Vascular anatomy of the lower limb
Rachael Olivia Forsythe and Robert J. Hinchliffe

82. Innervation of the lower limb and nerve blockade techniques
Andrew Carlos Vivas, Juan S. Uribe and Juan Pedro Giraldo Sr.

83. Pelvic girdle
R Shane Tubbs

84. Hip
Florence Unno, James Learned and Keith Mayo

85. Thigh
Karen Kim Evans, Marissa Suchyta, Samir Mardini, Christian Lava, Yunsoo Lee, Michael V. Carter and Mike McCurdy

86. Popliteal fossa
Mazin Fageir

87. Knee
Mazin Fageir

88. Compartments of the leg
Keishiro Kikuchi and Kosuke Tabuchi

89. Ankle
Alastair Younger and Husam Alrumaih

90. Foot
Alastair Younger and Husam Alrumaih

Appendices: Online
Eponyms
Susan Standring and Sam M. Wiseman

Review quotes

Review of the previous edition:
"This book is well done and I will recommend it highly to my colleagues. It is well written without being overly wordy and has high quality images and good clinical correlations." -Abhishek Kashyap, MD (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics) Doody's Review Score: 94-4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 21, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

PB

Peter A. Brennan

Professor Peter A. Brennan, MD, FRCS, FRCSI, FDSRCS, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Professor of Surgery, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK. President-Elect, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (2015). Honorary Editor, British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Maxillofacial/Head and Neck Surgeon, Honorary Professor of Surgery, Maxillofacial Unit, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK, Chairman, Intercollegiate Committee for Basic Surgical Examinations (MRCS and DOHNS), UK

SS

Susan Standring

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, Department of Anatomy, King's College, London, UK

SW

Sam M. Wiseman

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Consultant Head & Neck Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, General Surgeon & Research Director, Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, St. Paul's Hospital/Providence Health Care, Consultant Surgical Oncologist, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada