Full Description
A concise, portable surgery reference for residents, fellows, and attendings, this book covers a wide range of the most commonly performed procedures in general surgery. The information is presented in a clear and concise manner with a logical layout. A pocketbook size, this allows readers to use the book on the go and between cases.
Focusing on a variety of surgical procedures it can be used to check up throughout the day to check up on operations at any given time. The comprehensive illustrations help the reader to understand the procedures described, thanks to inter-operative photographs which provide accurate representations of the various techniques of the operations. The wide scope of this book ensures coverage of the most common general surgery procedures and the most common operations that faculty, residents and students encounter.
Contents
Part 1: Endocrine Surgery.- Total Thyroidectomy and Thyroid Lobectomy.- Transoral/Remote Access Thyroidectomy.- Radiofrequency Ablation.- Central Neck Dissection.- Modified Radical Neck Dissection.- Parathyroidectomy.- Open Adrenalectomy.- Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy: Transperitoneal Approach.- Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy: Retroperitoneal Approach.- Part 2: Breast Surgery.- Breast Conserving Surgery.- Mastectomy for Treatment and Prevention.- Axillary Surgery for Breast Cancer.- Oncoplastic Surgery for the General Surgeon.- Part 3: Esophageal and Gastric surgery.- Laparoscopic Anti-Reflux Surgery: Nissen Fundoplication, Toupet Fundoplication, Magnetic Sphincter Augmentation.- Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair.- Minimally Invasive Treatment of Achalasia.- Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.- Gastric Resection: Laparoscopic Wedge Resection, Laparoscopic Subtotal Gastrectomy, Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy.- Minimally Invasive Treatment of Ulcer Disease: Laparoscopic Graham Patch, Laparoscopic Vagotomy and Antrectomy.- Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy.- Laparoscopic Splenectomy.- Part 4: Small Bowel and Appendix Surgery.- Small Bowel Resection.- Appendectomy.- Surgical Management of Meckel's Diverticulum.- Part 5: Colorectal surgery.- Sigmoid Colectomy.- Low Anterior Resection and APR.- Total Abdominal Colectomy.- Stomas.- Part 6: Anorectal surgery.- Anorectal Abscess.- Anorectal Fistula Repair.- Hemorrhoid Management.- Lateral Internal Sphincterotomy.- Part 7: Hernia surgery.- Open inguinal hernia repair- Lichtenstein and Amid modification.- Minimally invasive inguinal hernia repair- ETEP, TEP, and TAPP approaches.- Ventral hernia repair- Preperitoneal and Underlay.- Component separation techniques- External oblique release, Rives-Stoppa, and Transversus abdominus release.- Off-midline hernia repair.- Part 8: Hepatobiliary Pancreas surgery.- Hepatic Procedures.- Biliary bypass and repair.- Ampullectomy.- Whipple.- Distal Pancreatectomy.- Other Pancreatic Resections.- Surgical Treatment of Pancreatitis.
