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For more than 25 years, Current Therapy in Colon and Rectal Surgery has been the go-to resource for preparing for the American Board of Surgery certification exam. Following in this tradition, the 3rd Edition offers a comprehensive, contemporary summary of treatment options for colorectal diseases, with a focus on practical clinical science and applications. In a single, portable volume, you’ll find complete coverage of new diagnostic modalities, medical therapeutics, and surgical treatment options, including minimally invasive surgery. Easy to read and digest, it provides a quick consultation with experts on the essentials of colon and rectal surgery. Features:- Consult this title for a quick overview before you enter the OR, and use it as a review tool for board certification and recertification
- Nearly 100 succinct chapters, just 3 or 4 pages each, written by leading experts in colorectal surgery
- Five chapters devoted exclusively to different aspects of rectal cancer
- Other key topics include minimally invasive surgery, reparative surgery, maturing outcomes, and managing surgical risk
- Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices
New to this Edition:- New chapters focus on hot topics such as intestinal transplants, enhanced recovery programs, and the management of peristomal hernias
- Updated information on the molecular biology of colorectal cancer and its implications for therapy
Table of Contents:- Management of fecal incontinence
- Rectal stricture
- Management of fecal impaction
- Abdominal approaches to rectal prolapse
- Management of solitary rectal ulcer
- Rectocele management
- Rectal foreign bodies
- Management of sacral and retrorectal tumors
- Management of rectal villous tumors
- Evaluation of rectal cancer: assessment of operative risk strategy
- Cancer of the rectum: neoadjuvant therapy
- Cancer of the rectum: operative management
- Rectal cancer: local and transanal treatment
- Rectal cancer: local recurrence, resection, surgery and follow-up
- Management of perineal hernia
SECTION III THE COLON - Preoperative preparation and risk assessment of the patient for colon and rectal surgery
- Medical treatment of ulcerative colitis and other colitides
- Chronic ulcerative colitis: surgical options
- Management of acute toxic colitis and megacolon
- Pelvic pouch anastomotic complications and management
- Pouchitis and functional complications of the pelvic pouch
- The continent ileostomy: evolution, construction and management of complications
- Unhealed perineal wound
- Medical treatment of Crohn’s disease
- Management of Crohn’s colitis
- Perianal Crohn’s disease: management
- Cecal ulcer
- Pseudomembranous colitis
- Cytomegalovirus ileocolitis and Kaposi’s sarcoma in AIDS
- Diagnosis and management of acute colonic diverticulitis
- Diverticulitis and fistula: surgical treatment and complications
- Lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- Large bowel obstruction
- Volvulus of the colon
- Pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie’s syndrome)
- Management of the malignant polyp
- Treatment of colorectal adenomas: screening, follow-up and surveillance
- Molecular genetics of colorectal cancer
- Polyposis syndromes
- Desmoid tumors
- Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer
- Cancer of the appendix and pseudomyxoma peritonei management
- Surgical management of cancer of the colon
- Chemotherapy and adjuvant therapies for metastatic colon cancer
- Management of colorectal liver metastasis
- Resection of colorectal pulmonary metastases
- Management of non-epithelial colonic and rectal tumors, and gastrointestinal stromal tumors
- Management of colonic ischemia
- Management and Treatment of Colon and Rectal Trauma
- Endometriosis of the colon and rectum
- Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis
- Constipation
SECTION IV SMALL INTESTINE - Small bowel obstruction
- Medical management of short bowel syndrome
- Indications and management of intestinal transplant
- Crohn’s disease of the duodenum, stomach, and esophagus
- Management of small bowel Crohn’s disease
- Small bowel neoplasms
- Carcinoid tumors of the large and small bowel
- Enterocutaneous fistula: small and large bowel
- Acute and chronic mesenteric ischemia of small intestine
- Radiation enteritis and proctocolitis
SECTION V COMPLICATIONS (AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS) - Colorectal surgery in the high-risk patient
- Reoperative pelvic surgery
- Nutritional support in colorectal surgery
- Prevention and management of sepsis
- Management of anastomotic leak
- Complications of colonoscopy
- The management of hemorrhage during pelvic surgery
- Urologic complications of colorectal surgery
- Prevention and treatment of complications of laparoscopic intestinal surgery
- Prevention and management of stoma complications
- Stoma and wound considerations: nursing management
- Outcomes analysis and measurement of quality of life
- CPT coding in colorectal surgery
- Enhanced recovery pathways after colorectal surgery
- Managing complex ventral hernia during colorectal surgery
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