Colorectal Surgery
Handbooks in General Surgery
1st Edition
Published on 7. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
XX, 366 pages
978-1-84996-443-2 (ISBN)
Description
Colorectal Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to colorectal surgical therapy.
The chapters provide pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with various colorectal disorders, spanning benign and malignant problems and minimally invasive procedures. Stages of operative approaches with relevant technical considerations are outlined in an easily understandable manner. Complications are reviewed when appropriate for the organ system and problem. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict anatomic or technical principles.
A concise, handbook-sized reference work, this book is a valuable resource for all general surgeons and residents in training.
More details
Edition
2011
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
27 s/w Abbildungen, 27 farbige Abbildungen
XX, 366 p. 54 illus., 27 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84996-443-2 (9781849964432)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-84996-444-9
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
This book is edited by a team of experts from across the globe.
Kirby I. Bland, MD, is based at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, in the USA, where he is the Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, and the Deputy Director at the Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Michael G. Sarr, MD is the James C. Marson Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN in the USA.
Markus W. Büchler, MD, is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
Attila Csendes, MD FACS(Hon) is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University Hospital in Santiago, Chile.
O. James Garden, MBChB MD FRCS(Ed) FRCP(Ed) FRACS(Hon), is the Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the UK.
John Wong, BSc(Med(Syd)) MBBS(Syd) PhD(Syd) MD(Hon(Syd)) FRACS FRCS(Edin) FRCS(Glasg) FACS(Hon) is the Chair Professor for the Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong and Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, China.
Content
Part 1. Benign.- Large Bowel Obstruction.- Chronic Ulcerative Colitis.- Crohn's Disease of the Small Bowel and Colon.- Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction.- Surgical Therapy of Constipation.- Diverticulitis.- Polyposis Syndromes of the Colon.- Clinical Management of Patients with Fecal Incontinence.- Pruritus Ani.- Rectovaginal Fistulas.- Pseudomembranous Colitis.- Toxic Megacolon.- Colonic Volvulus.- Rectal Prolapse and Solitary Rectal Ulcer.- Ischemic Colitis.- Hemorrhoids.- Part 2. Malignant.- Premalignant Polyps of the Colon and Rectum.- Management of Colon Cancer.- Appendiceal Epithelial Neoplasms and Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, a Distinct Clinical Entity with Distinct Treatments.- Anal Cancer.- Rectal Cancer: Issues for the 21st Century, a Practical Update for the Surgeon.- Adjuvant and Neoadjuvant Therapy for Colorectal Carcinoma.- Part 3. Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Obscure Overt Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Part 4. Minimally Invasive Procedures.- Laparoscopic Colectomy.