Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
1. A Focused History of Surgery
2. Preoperative and Postoperative Management
3. Endoscopy and Endoscopic Intervention
4. Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery
5. Laparoscopic Staging and Approaches to Cancer
ABDOMINAL WALL
6. Incisions, Closures, and Management of the Abdominal Wound
7. Hernias
8. Perspective on Hernias
9. Intestinal Stomas
10. Abdominal Abscess and Enteric Fistulae
11. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
12. Management of Abdominal Trauma
13. Abdominal Vascular Emergencies
ESOPHAGUS
14. Benign Esophageal Disorders
15. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Hiatal Hernia (Including Paraesophageal)
16. Perspective on Benign Esophageal Disease
17. Cancer of the Esophagus
18. Surgical Procedures to Resect and Replace the Esophagus
19. Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery of the Esophagus
20. Perspective on Malignant Esophageal Disease
STOMACH AND DUODENUM
21. Benign Gastric Disorders
22. Gastric Adenocarcinoma and Other Gastric Neoplasms (Except Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors)
23. Perspective on Gastric Cancer
24. Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
25. Perspective on Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
26. Stomach and Duodenum: Operative Procedures
27. Morbid Obesity and Its Surgical Treatment
28. Perspective on Morbid Obesity and Its Surgical Treatment
INTESTINE AND COLON
29. Small Bowel Obstruction
30. Tumors of the Small Intestine
31. Appendix, Meckel’s, and Other Small Bowel Diverticula
32. Diverticular Disease and Colonic Volvulus
33. Crohn’s Disease
34. Ulcerative Colitis
35. Perspective on Inflammatory Bowel Disease
36. Tumors of the Colon
37. Laparoscopic Colorectal Procedures
38. Perspective on Colonic Neoplasms
RECTUM AND ANUS
39. Benign Disorders of the Anorectum (Pelvic Floor, Fissures, Hemorrhoids, and Fistulas)
40. Cancer of the Rectum
41. Perspective on Rectal Cancer
42. Cancer of the Anus
LIVER
43. Hepatic Abscess and Cystic Disease of the Liver
44. Benign and Malignant Primary Liver Neoplasms
45. Hepatic Colorectal Metastases: Resection, Pumps, and Ablation
46. Perspective on Liver Surgery
47. Portal Hypertension
GALLBLADDER AND BILE DUCTS
48. Cholecystitis and Cholelithiasis
49. Choledocholithiasis and Cholangitis
50. Choledochal Cyst and Benign Biliary Strictures
51. Cancer of the Gallbladder and Bile Ducts
52. Laparoscopic Biliary Procedures
53. Perspective on Biliary Diseases
PANCREAS
54. Management of Acute Pancreatitis
55. Complications of Acute Pancreatitis (Including Pseudocysts)
56. Chronic Pancreatitis
57. Perspective on Management of Patients with Severe Acute Pancreatitis
58. Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas
59. Cancers of the Periampullary Region and the Pancreas
60. Endocrine Tumors of the Pancreas
61. Perspective on Pancreatic Neoplasms
SPLEEN AND ADRENAL
62. The Spleen
63. Adrenalectomy

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