Beschreibung:
Surgery of the Small Bowel provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy for small bowel disorders.The chapters provide pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with various small bowel disorders, spanning benign and malignant problems, gastrointestinal bleeding 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 with 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.
Each chapter begins with a list of the most poignant specificed applications for treatment of surgical disease and the failures that may be expected when such diagnostic approaches, technique and therapy are not utilized, helping the reader to focus in on the most take-home points of the chapter
Part 1: Benign.- Small Bowel Obstruction.- Motility Disorders of the Small Bowel.- Appendicitis.- Short Bowel Syndrome.- Radiation and Surgery.- Splanchnic Venous Thrombosis.- Enterocutaneous Fistula.- Part 2: Malignant.- Adenocarcinoma of the Small Bowel.- Lymphoma of the Small Bowel.- Carcinoid of the Small Bowel.- Stromal Tumors of the Small Bowel.- Part 3: Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage: Diagnosis and Treatment.- Part 4: Minimally Invasive Procedures.- Laparoscopic Appendectomy.- Laparoscopic Small Bowel Surgery.