General surgery

Recent developments have favourably and extensively altered general surgical practice.

General surgery consists ofa main corpus of propaedeutic elements and clinical problems, which has been modified over the years by the separate development of numerous sub-specialistic branches.

Despite 50 years of antibiotics, infection remains a major source of both morbidity and mortality.

Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues?

After the Second World War the number of biliary diseases has abruptly risen and lithiasis has become in many regions the most frequent surgical disease of the abdomen.

Within recent years, in the course of increasing international exchanges in the field of Health Sciences, many questions on various aspects of its development in China during the past three decades have been asked by visiting colleagues from abroad, particularly on the development and practice of health care in China.

The Medicines Act 1968 together with its delegated legislation comprehensively controls the manufacture, packaging, labelling, distribution and promotion of medicines for both human and animal use in the United Kingdom.

It is easy to make anecdotal claims for the efficacy of new forms of treatment based on the short term results in a small number of patients.

There has been incredible progress over the last decade in therapeutic endoscopy.

Biotherapy is defined as the use of living organisms in the treatment and diagnosis of human and animal diseases.

Desmoid Tumors (DT), also called Aggressive Fibromatoses, are a rare fibroblastic proliferative disease, with an incidence of 2 to 4 new cases per million people per year.

We proudly present the first book to integrate all aspects of purinergic signaling in the respiratory system.

This practice-oriented book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the history, surgical anatomy, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation and treatment of primary, secondary, and tertiary hyperparathyroidism.

This richly illustrated volume describes the performance of total and subtotal gastrectomy with extended D2 lymphadenectomy by providing a detailed step-by-step guide to both manual and mechanical procedures.

This book describes the current applications of the robotic system in general surgery, focusing on the technical aspects of the procedures most commonly performed by this means.

This monograph summarizes state of the art knowledge regarding peritoneal surface malignancies, with in-depth description of treatment options and the results achieved to date.

In recent years, there has been huge interest in developing new methods that offer improved accuracy for the detection of small bowel pathology, and in particular for the assessment of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).

Ultrasound guidance of liver surgery is a very sophisticated approach that permits the performance of otherwise unfeasible operations, discloses the true extent of tumors, increases the indications for hepatectomy, and renders surgery safer.

Trauma surgery has increasingly become a specialized field inspired by different principles and philosophy.

During the past decade, the medical and surgical treatment of ulcerative colitis has undergone dramatic advances, including the widespread use of immunomodulators, biological drugs, and restorative proctocolectomy.

Trauma surgery has increasingly become a specialized field inspired by different principles and philosophy.

The increasing prevalence of morbid obesity has led the World Health Organization to coin the descriptive term "e;globesity"e; to reflect the worldwide nature of the problem.

Owing to the alterations in visceral anatomy, many endoscopists, and especially trainees, experience difficulties when performing endoscopic surveys or procedures in patients who have previously undergone surgery to the digestive tract.

The purpose of this book is twofold: First, it provides an up-to-date overview of the field of surgical oncology for surgeons in training.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the approach to retroperitoneal sarcomas, rare and challenging tumors requiring highly specialized, multidisciplinary management.

This book reviews the latest advances in treating ulcerative colitis.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of minimally invasive (MI) surgical options for the treatment of pancreatic diseases.

This book aims to equip readers with a better understanding of neuroendocrine tumors of the abdomen and explains how to manage them optimally by making use of novel therapeutic options that represent major advances on previous treatments.

This book, which describes in detail the most common procedures employed in inguinal hernia surgery, is exceptional in reflecting fully the most recent advances, as well as the most established techniques, in knowledge and practice.

This book describes the surgical bariatric procedures most frequently performed worldwide and examines their evolution in recent years both within Italy and internationally.

Laparoscopy is a new frontier of the surgical technique, which recently gained more and more popularity and credit upon the surgical teams, also in Urology.

This book intends to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the newest techniques in minimally invasive liver surgery.

Oncoplastic and reconstructive surgery combines the most up-to-date techniques in plastic surgery with surgery for breast cancer, providing optimal oncologic and aesthetic results by means of a single procedure.

Bleeding from the liver surface during hepatic transection is one of the main factors affecting mortality and morbidity of liver resection.

This book offers a comprehensive description of the main surgical treatments for adrenal tumors, encompassing both open surgery and laparoscopy.

La nascita e lo sviluppo della chirurgia laparoscopica emini-invasiva è il cambiamento più importanteavvenuto in chirurgia pediatrica negli ultimi 30 anni.

Ultrasonography (US) has long been considered an important diagnostic imaging modality for investigation of the pancreas despite certain significant and well-known limitations.

This is the first time a book about laparoscopy in emergency abdominal surgery has been published.

Although there has been a slow but steady decrease in incidence, gastric cancer remains the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide.

Fractures of the tibial pilon (plafond) represent some of the most invalidating articular lesions.

The volume is authored by a colorectal surgeon with long-standing clinical and scientific experience and is devoted to the management of complications following surgery of the anorectum and the pelvic floor.

Questo libro su anoretto e pavimento pelvico è indirizzato soprattutto ai chirurghi generali e ai proctologi.

Questo libro si propone di impartire i consigli utili sul modo migliore per accompagnare il paziente traumatizzato grave in sala operatoria, organizzare il lavoro tuo e dell’équipe, sudare sette camicie per risolvere una situazione difficile, ma alla fine chiudere l’intervento con il miglior risultato possibile.

Oncological surgeons are often requested in their clinical practice to identify and manage uncommon and complex situations.

Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease, whose symptoms are similar to other intestinal disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis; it can therefore be difficult to diagnose.

The first laparoscopic cholecystectomy, performed by Prof.

Cholangiocarcinoma is the second most frequent primary neoplasm of the liver and its incidence is increasing in Western countries.

Incisional hernia surgery has witnessed an important progress over the last years, not only as far as the pathophysiological and etiopathogenetic aspects are concerned, but also from a technical point of view.