This full-color reference provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations for the major laparoscopic colorectal procedures, and describes complications and strategies for their resolution. The techniques are based on proven step-by-step approaches to laparoscopic colectomy.
Each chapter begins with a detailed description of the procedures, including intra-operative difficulties and complications. Remedies for complications are included throughout.
A DVD bound into every book includes videos of key steps in the laparoscopic portions of the surgical procedures.
Book Features
Outcomes of Traditional Open Surgery - Postoperative Care Pathways
Development of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
Segmental Colectomy
Book Details
Each chapter begins with a detailed description of the procedures, including intra-operative difficulties and complications. Remedies for complications are included throughout.
A DVD bound into every book includes videos of key steps in the laparoscopic portions of the surgical procedures.
Book Features
- Step-by-step descriptions and full-color illustrations of the major laparoscopic colorectal procedures.
- Remedies for complications included throughout.
- The techniques are based on proven step-by-step approaches to laparoscopic colectomy.
- This type of minimally invasive colorectal surgery, after a period of debate, has now been shown to improve patient outcomes. More and more surgeons are looking to master these procedures.
- DVD of procedures bound into every book.
Outcomes of Traditional Open Surgery - Postoperative Care Pathways
Development of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
- Technical Advances Making Procedures Feasible
- Benign Versus Malignant Disease
- Training Systems and Initial Case Selection
- Operative Room Requirements
- Surgical Instruments
- Financial Implications of Laparoscopic Colectomy
- Positioning and Basic Port Insertion
- High Inferior Mesenteric Artery Ligation
- Low Inferior Mesenteric Artery Ligation
- Ligation of the Ileocolic Artery
- Division of the Upper Rectum and Mesorectum
- Laparoscopic Anastomotic Techniques
- Mobilization of the Splenic Flexure
- Mobilization of Hepatic Flexure
- Port Site Closure
- Ligation of Middle Colic Vessels
Segmental Colectomy
- Right Hemicolectomy
- Ileocecectomy
- Sigmoid Colectomy
- Low Anterior Resection
- Abdominoperineal Resection
- Hartmann's Reversal
- Resection Rectopexy
- Well's Rectopexy
- Subtotal Colectomy and Ileorectal Anastomosis
- Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch Anal Anastomosis
- Loop Sigmoid Colostomy
- Loop Ileostomy
- Hemorrhagic Problems
- Conversion Indications
- Port Site Problems
- Equipment Failure
- Organ Injury: Electrocautery and Tears
- Anastomotic Defects
- Entry Into the Lesser Sac
- Laparoscopic Suturing
- Testing the Bladder After Takedown of Colovesical Fistula
- Mobilization Hepatic Flexure
- Identification of Median Sacral Artery
- Snake Retractor
- Mobilisation of Sigmoid Colon: Lateral to Medial Approach
- Uterine Sling in Pelvic Dissection
Book Details
- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 1 Har/Dvdr edition (August 30, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781766346
- ISBN-13: 978-0781766340
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches