The recent widespread application of minimally invasive techniques has had a profound impact on the diagnosis and therapy of thoracic disorders, including in the pediatric age group.
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.
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.
Although lymphoscintigraphy was originally introduced into clinical routine for identification of the cause of peripheral edema, more recently it has been widely applied for radioguided biopsy of the sentinel lymph node in patients with solid cancers.
Negli ultimi quindici anni l’introduzione delle tecniche videoendoscopiche ha indubbiamente rivoluzionato la Chirurgia Toracica, rendendo più agevole, rapido e sicuro l’approccio a diverse patologie del torace.
The volume is an overview of the basics of biomechanics of circular extrernal fixation and is based on a system of coordinates that allows safer insertion of K-wires and half pins into the bone.
The supermicrosurgical procedure known as Lymphaticovenular Anastomosis, or LVA, is a minimally invasive physiologic surgical treatment of lymphedema, which has gained attention worldwide in recent years as technical limitations were overcome and surgical indications can now apply to a larger set of patients with lymphatic disease.
Written by an international team of experts, and endorsed by the Asia Pacific Hernia Society (APHS), the main objective of this book is to provide and promote best practices in hernia surgery.
Comprehensively covering various techniques such as ERCP, EUS, EST and lithotripsy, this book highlights innovative endoscopic surgical techniques for managing pancreatico-biliary.
This book presents a comprehensive overview and outlook for the future of indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence navigation surgery, which is attracting clinical interest as a safe and less invasive procedure not only in detecting cerebral vessels, coronary arteries, and biliary trees, but also in identifying sentinel lymph nodes in cancer.
This book is a valuable resource on the subject of off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) surgery, which has recently been developed as a promising technique for reducing surgical damage to patients.
This book focuses on a novel series of minimally invasive surgeries performed without gas insufflation and through a single port using the RoboSurgeon system.
An International Conference on "e;Neurosurgical Training and Reserach"e; was held in Munich from October 6 - 9, 1996, under the auspices of the EANS, and organized by H.
It is only recently that the use of the endoscope as the sole visualizing tool has been introduced in transsphenoidal pituitary surgery with its favorable related implications and minimal operative trauma.
Currently, surgical management provides the definitive treatment of choice for most pituitary adenomas, craniopharyngiomas and meningiomas of the sellar region.
Advances in endoscopic sinus surgery have led to development of applications never imagined before for treating both adult and pediatric patients with sinus disease.
In the continuous effort to further improve neurosurgery, intraoperative information on structure and function of the brain has become an important tool which potentially will result in an improved outcome of neurosurgical procedures.
Dieses Standardwerk – in der dritten überarbeiteten Auflage – vermittelt eine systematische Einführung in die interdisziplinäre Onkologie aus dem Blickwinkel der Chirurgischen Onkologie.
Die Navigation ist bei den komplexen Schädelbasisstrukturen zur Orientierung äußerst hilfreich und insbesondere bei knöchernen Strukturen sehr präzise.
Alle chirurgisch relevanten Erkrankungen der endokrinen Organe sind systematisch mit Schwerpunkten auf dem diagnostischen Vorgehen, der Therapieplanung und -durchführung und dem perioperativen Management beschrieben.
Die Möglichkeiten, die die Anwendung der Robotersysteme für die wichtigsten Indikationsbereiche in der Viszeral- und Thoraxchirurgie bietet, aber auch ihre Limitationen werden fundiert und detailliert von erfahrenen Experten beschrieben: Patientenlagerung, Zugang und schrittweise Durchführung der Operationen, Ergebnisse und Vergleich mit konventionell laparoskopischen und offenen Operationen, postoperatives Management, Lernkurve der Operateure, Vor- und Nachteile der roboterassistierten Verfahren.
Diagnostik und laparoskopische Therapie von Leistenhernien, Bauchwand- und Narbenhernien sowie Hiatushernien werden Schritt für Schritt und mit zahlreichen Abbildungen von einem internationalen Expertenteam beschrieben.
