This textbook aims to bring together numerous international experts to incorporate the current management and investigation of these important areas for colorectal practitioners and trainees. In this book, the reader will fi nd up-to-date approaches toward a myriad of challenging areas including genetic testing in hereditary and familial cancer, the role and outcome of multivisceral resections in rectal cancer, and the recommended management of presacral tumors and recurrent rectal carcinoma. These discussions are allied with an update on chemotherapy and immunotherapy trials in colorectal cancer, new approaches to radiotherapeutic delivery, and important quality of life issues that affect overall postoperative outcomes. Additional chapters include the specialized areas of inflammatory bowel disease management, including revisional pouch surgery and perianal Crohn’s disease.
Functional bowel disorders represent a particularly difficult group of referred patients for which there has been a radical change in management through the introduction of a sometimes confusing array of new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Patients who may benefit from this spectrum of evaluation and management include those individuals with fecal incontinence, poor postoperative functional outcomes, and evacuatory difficulty. Two perhaps more commonly seen but nonetheless challenging areas included in the text are updates on complex anal fistula management, including the very difficult to treat rectovaginal and rectourethral fistulas, and the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of complicated sigmoid diverticular disease.
This textbook will be a practical guide for patient assessment and will provide both the practicing surgeon and the surgical trainee with formulaic and rational pathways for specialized patient care.
Contents
1. Genetic Approaches to Colorectal Cancer
2. Multivisceral Resection in Rectal Cancer
3. Colonic Stenting
4. Chemotherapy Trials for Colorectal Cancer in Advanced Disease: What’s the Current Hypothesis?
5. Current Clinical Trials in Radiotherapy for Rectal Cancer
6. Quality of Life Issues and Rectal Cancer
7. Managing Presacral Tumors
8. Revisional Pouch Surgery
9. Surgery for Fecal Incontinence
10. Recurrent Rectal Cancer
11. The Surgical Management of Evacutory Dysfunction
12. New Approaches in Perineal Crohn’s Disease
13. Complex Anal Fistula
14. Rectovaginal and Rectourethral Fistula
15. Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound in Proctologic Practice
16. Changing Paradigms in the Treatment of Sigmoid Diverticulitis
Index
Book Details
- Hardcover: 235 pages
- Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (May 12, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1848827555
- ISBN-13: 978-1848827554
- Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.7 x 0.6 inches