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Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12th Edition
THE DEFINITIVE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS FOR GENERAL, COLORECTAL, AND GASTROINTESTINAL SURGEONS--NOW IN FULL COLOR!

With each edition, Maingot's Abdominal Operations has built a legacy of expertise, currency, and clinical rigor acclaimed by surgical trainees and practicing surgeons. Presented in full-color for the first time, the 63 streamlined chapters of the twelfth edition offer a concise, yet complete, survey of the diagnosis and management of benign and malignant digestive diseases. This authoritative resource has everything you need to understand congenital, acquired, and neoplastic disorders--and optimize surgical outcomes for any type of abdominal procedure.

FEATURES

  • Contemporary focus on operative procedures, and new concepts in the diagnosis and management of abdominal disease
  • Convenient organ/procedure presentation provides a seamless review of surgical protocols, as well as pre- and postoperative strategies and techniques
  • Thirteen new "Perspective" chapters feature expert commentary and alternative viewpoints on the most clinically relevant topics
  • Added chapters on gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal trauma, and abdominal vascular emergencies--along with minimally invasive surgery chapters woven throughout the text--present current, ready-to-use insights designed to enhance surgical care and recovery
  • More than 1,250 illustrations (most in full color)

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Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12th Edition
THE DEFINITIVE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS FOR GENERAL, COLORECTAL, AND GASTROINTESTINAL SURGEONS--NOW IN FULL COLOR!

With each edition, Maingot's Abdominal Operations has built a legacy of expertise, currency, and clinical rigor acclaimed by surgical trainees and practicing surgeons. Presented in full-color for the first time, the 63 streamlined chapters of the twelfth edition offer a concise, yet complete, survey of the diagnosis and management of benign and malignant digestive diseases. This authoritative resource has everything you need to understand congenital, acquired, and neoplastic disorders--and optimize surgical outcomes for any type of abdominal procedure.

FEATURES

  • Contemporary focus on operative procedures, and new concepts in the diagnosis and management of abdominal disease
  • Convenient organ/procedure presentation provides a seamless review of surgical protocols, as well as pre- and postoperative strategies and techniques
  • Thirteen new "Perspective" chapters feature expert commentary and alternative viewpoints on the most clinically relevant topics
  • Added chapters on gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal trauma, and abdominal vascular emergencies--along with minimally invasive surgery chapters woven throughout the text--present current, ready-to-use insights designed to enhance surgical care and recovery
  • More than 1,250 illustrations (most in full color)

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THE DEFINITIVE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS FOR GENERAL, COLORECTAL, AND GASTROINTESTINAL SURGEONS--NOW IN FULL COLOR!

With each edition, Maingot's Abdominal Operations has built a legacy of expertise, currency, and clinical rigor acclaimed by surgical trainees and practicing surgeons. Presented in full-color for the first time, the 63 streamlined chapters of the twelfth edition offer a concise, yet complete, survey of the diagnosis and management of benign and malignant digestive diseases. This authoritative resource has everything you need to understand congenital, acquired, and neoplastic disorders--and optimize surgical outcomes for any type of abdominal procedure.

FEATURES

  • Contemporary focus on operative procedures, and new concepts in the diagnosis and management of abdominal disease
  • Convenient organ/procedure presentation provides a seamless review of surgical protocols, as well as pre- and postoperative strategies and techniques
  • Thirteen new "Perspective" chapters feature expert commentary and alternative viewpoints on the most clinically relevant topics
  • Added chapters on gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal trauma, and abdominal vascular emergencies--along with minimally invasive surgery chapters woven throughout the text--present current, ready-to-use insights designed to enhance surgical care and recovery
  • More than 1,250 illustrations (most in full color)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071639873
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 08/22/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 1328
File size: 257 MB
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About the Author

Michael J. Zinner, MD, FACS
Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman
Department of Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Clinical Director
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center
Moseley Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Stanley W. Ashley, MD, FACS
Senior Surgeon and Vice Chairman
Department of Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Staff Surgeon
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center
Sawyer Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

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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