Based on the three pillars of understanding particular disease processes - fundamental anatomy and physiology, pathopysiology, and clinical correlations, this book presents surgical treatment of GI disease as the means to correct abnormal physiology and restore health.

Comprehensive discussions of clinical disorders review the surgical treatment options. With 400 illustrations and tables, including hundreds of anatomical line drawings commissioned exclusively for this textbook, "Gastrointestinal Surgery" provides a clinical and therapeutic approach to surgical diseases which will prove invaluable to the surgical trainee and the practitioner preparing for recertification.

Esophagus.- Stomach and Duodenum.- Surgery for Morbid Obesity.- Pancreas.- Gastrointestinal Peptides and Peptide-Secreting Tumors (Apudomas).- Liver.- Biliary Tract.- Small and Large Intestines.- Appendix.- Spleen.- Abdominal Trauma.- Abdominal Wall, Peritoneum, and Retroperitoneum.- Perioperative Care.