Colorectal Surgery

This illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to colorectal surgical therapy. It provides pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with various colorectal disorders.

"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.

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.