Gastrointestinal and colorectal surgery

Iron Physiology and Pathophysiology in Humans provides health professionals in many areas of research and practice with the most up-to-date and well-referenced volume on the importance of iron as a nutrient and its role in health and disease.

Chronic viral hepatitis affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and each year millions more people become infected.

In 50 Landmark Papers every Acute Care Surgeon Should Know, editors Stephen Cohn and Peter Rhee have compiled a selection of the most influential recent contributions to the specialty of acute care surgery/emergency surgery.

This book is designed to present readers with comprehensive, high-quality research results on almost all aspects of this carcinoma in clinical management, from correct determination of the esophagogastric junction, issues on cardiac mucosa, epidemiology, and natural history, to clinical, endoscopic, and histopathologic features and diagnostic pitfalls of this carcinoma at both early and advanced stages.

This book provides a concise, state-of-the-art overview of occult GI bleeding.

A concise, full-color, step-by-step guide to performing colorectal surgeryThis well-illustrated new book delivers succinct guidance on performing minimally invasive (laparoscopic and robotic) colon and rectal surgery, written primarily for an audience of general surgery residents and fellows in colorectal surgery and surgical oncology.

Advances in surgical technique and broadening indications for complex gastrointestinal procedures, surgical management of thoracic, hepato-pancreato-biliary, and colorectal diseases continues to evolve, but morbidity continues to be a persistent problem.

This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of cancer risks in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), as well as the screening modalities used to reduce these risks.

This book is designed specifically to help equip new surgeons with the anatomical and technical knowledge to supplement hands on experience in minimally invasive colon and rectal surgery.

Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery is an easy to read text, written by world class faculty, that provides clinicians with succinct and didactic information about what to do in high intensity, resource limited situations.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of current endoscopic ultrasound use in all aspects of pancreatology, from diagnosis to therapy, i.

Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) are the most common and most significant chronic disorders in Pediatric Gastroenterology.

Complexities in Colorectal Surgery: Decision-Making and Management provides a unique, modern, practical guide that covers the strategic evaluation, specific approaches, and detailed management techniques utilized by expert Colorectal Surgeons caring for patients with complex problems-whether they result from underlying colorectal disease or from complications arising from previous surgical therapy.

This text provides a concise yet comprehensive review of GI tract complications of HIV infection.

This book addresses practical issues that reflect the current landscape of GI pathology practice and is organized in such a way that fits the fast-pacing daily life of practicing pathologists.

First published in 1994: Colorectal Physiology reviews recent findings in fecal incontinence, which is becoming a greater concern to physicians and surgeons as our population grows older and becomes better educated.

This text provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the evaluation and management of liver mass lesions.

Complex abdominal wall hernias and complex abdominal wall defects, including stomas or the complications associated with any of the above, are common and challenging for surgeons.

Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the Western World.

First published in 1994: Colorectal Physiology reviews recent findings in fecal incontinence, which is becoming a greater concern to physicians and surgeons as our population grows older and becomes better educated.

Surgical oncology is now a recognized specialty in the US and several European countries, and cancer surgery takes up a significant part of any general surgeon's workload.

This casebook provides a concise yet comprehensive state-of-the art review of common stomach and small intestine disorders.

This book is the first of a planned series of texts on pathology of the gastrointestinal tract.

As there is a high incidence of disease recurrence after liver transplantation, this volume is designed around the need for a reference text dealing exclusively with this problem.

This volume contains the papers presented at the International Symposium on "e;Cirrhosis, Hyperammonemia and Hepatic Encephalopathy"e;, held in Valencia, Spain, January 24th-27th, 1994.

This volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the major issues specific to the field of antireflux surgery.

Vascular Liver Disease: Mechanisms and Management covers all of the disease entities that stem from abnormalities that affect the hepatic vasculature.

This book was designed to help gastroenterologists take care of their patients with challenging problems.

Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient looks at monitoring and maintaining the health of organ recipients and donors, pre, during and post-operatively.

This volume presents the technical and cultural state of the art of two of the riskiest, most complex and operator-dependent digestive operative techniques: endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS).

The purpose of this series of volumes is to present a comprehensive view of the complications that result from the use of acceptable diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

In offering this book to what we hope will be interested readers, we have several aspirations.

This book presents the latest approaches to cholangioscopy and covers recent innovations in single-operator cholangioscopy platforms, which have evolved from fibre-optic technology to digital endoscopes and have significantly advanced the management of biliary disease.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of quality metrics and methods used to improve quality for all major modalities of CRC screening.

The book encompasses the different concepts and designs using magnets for surgical purposes.

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Written by leaders in the field, the third edition of Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving, provides surgical residents and medical students with a current, concise and algorithmic approach to frequently encountered clinical challenges.

This book shows the huge impact the gut microbiota has on the gastrointestinal health of humans with a particular focus on children.

Interventional Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Endoscopic Management and Treatment of Complications covers the preparation, principle, techniques, and damage control of complications in endoscopic therapy, providing the ultimate guidance in endoscopic management of IBD.

Alle chirurgisch relevanten Erkrankungen des Dünn- und Dickdarms und des Analbereichs sowie Hernien- und Milzchirurgie und weitere allgemeinchirurgische Themen sind systematisch mit Schwerpunkten auf dem diagnostischen Vorgehen, der Therapieplanung und -durchführung und dem perioperativen Management beschrieben.

This atlas provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of high-resolution manometry, impedance and pH monitoring.

Neuropeptides and Stress presents a comprehensive survey by leading pioneers in the field of the knowledge and concepts implicating neuropeptides in the regulations of responses to stress.

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This book provides clear surgical options when the cases are not "e;routine"e;.

It is with much pleasure that I introduce this first volume in a series of Topics in Gastroenterology aimed at the intelligent clinician.

Your trusted guide to surgical weight-loss Sixty percent of individuals over the age of 20 or 58 million people in the U.

"e;Approximately 65% of our population is overweight and 12% are morbidly obese.