Mayo Clinic Gastrointestinal Surgery

By Ronald Hinder, Michael Sarr, Keith A. Kelly

Over 50 surgeons from the Mayo Clinic have collaborated to present the definitive new single-volume work on gastrointestinal surgery. Focusing on practical surgical how-to rather than basic science, it delivers all of the step-by-step, richly illustrated guidance surgeons need to successfully reproduce the many operative procedures perfected by the Mayo Clinic staff.Explores the diagnosis, indications for surgery, choice of operation, operative techniques, and surgical outcomes for every major gastrointestinal condition-from the esophagus to the anal canal. Features more than 845 intraoperative photographs, line drawings, diagnostic images, pathology slides, tables, and graphs that make every technique easy to follow.Covers all of the latest minimal access techniques-including Nissen fundoplication, Heller myotomy, splenectomy, and colectomy-as well as the newest procedures for hepatic resection, liver and pancreatic transplantation, proctolectomy, and more.Outlines today's best approaches for managing challenging conditions such as morbid obesity, pelvic trauma, GERD, esophageal hiatal hernia, Crohn's disease, and colon cancer.Covers the most recent combined surgical, chemotherapeutic, and radiotherapeutic approaches to cancer.
-Provides evidence from the literature to support each therapeutic recommendation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721692877
• ISBN13: 9780721692876
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 1020 Pages
• Weight: 5.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.5" x 8.5"