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This book provides detailed, comprehensive and illustrative content to the surgical community in the areas of foregut oncologic surgery. The text contains an in depth review of all surgical aspects of oncologic diseases involving the stomach and esophagus. The main focus is on the minimally invasive techniques including potential complications and their management. The text also includes an online link for the videos for all minimally invasive foregut surgical procedures including animation content which provide a more comprehensive learning experience.
Minimally Invasive Foregut Surgery for Malignancy: Principles and Practice is structured in a way that makes it useful at every level of training and will be of great utility to practicing surgeons, fellows in surgical subspecialty training and surgical residents.
List of contents
Pathogenesis of esophageal cancer.- Endoscopic Treatment of Pre-Malignant and Early Esophageal Malignancy.- The Volume-outcome Relationship, Standardized Clinical Pathways and Minimally Invasive Surgery for Esophagectomy.- Goals of Surgical Therapy for Esophageal Cancer.- Optimization of Patients for Esophageal Cancer Surgery.- Pathogenesis of Gastric Cancer.- Standards for Surgical Therapy of Gastric Cancer.- Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Gastric Cancer--Its Indication, Technique, and Our Experience.-Multimodality Therapy in Gastric Cancer.- Laparoscopic Transhiatal Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer.- Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy with EEA Anastomosis.- Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy with Side-Side Thoracic Anastomosis.- Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Transhiatal Esophagectomy with Cervical Anastomosis.- Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy with Colonic Interposition.- Thoracolaparoscopic Esophagectomy in the Prone Position for Carcinoma of the Esophagus.- Thoracoscopic Enucleation of Esophageal Benign Tumors.- Minimally Invasive Feeding Tube and Esophageal Stent Placement.- Robotic Utilization in Esophageal Cancer Surgery.- Minimally Invasive Intragastric Surgery.- Laparoscopic Partial Gastrectomy.- Principles and Practice of Laparoscopic Gastrectomy with Gastroduodenostomy (Billroth I).- Laparoscopic Subtotal Gastrectomy with Gastrojejunostomy and D2 Lymphadenectomy.- Laparoscopic Proximal Gastrectomy with Double Tract Anastomosis.- Laparoscopy-Assisted Total Gastrectomy.- Robotic Utilization in Gastric Cancer Surgery.
About the author
Steven N. Hochwald, MD, FACSProfessor of OncologyVice-Chair and Chief of GI SurgeryDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA Moshim Kukar, MD Associate EditorDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
Summary
This book provides detailed, comprehensive and illustrative content to the surgical community in the areas of foregut oncologic surgery. The text contains an in depth review of all surgical aspects of oncologic diseases involving the stomach and esophagus. The main focus is on the minimally invasive techniques including potential complications and their management. The text also includes an online link for the videos for all minimally invasive foregut surgical procedures including animation content which provide a more comprehensive learning experience.
Minimally Invasive Foregut Surgery for Malignancy: Principles and Practice is structured in a way that makes it useful at every level of training and will be of great utility to practicing surgeons, fellows in surgical subspecialty training and surgical residents.
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“This book details management of upper GI malignancies using laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgical approaches. … The audience is the chief, fellow, or faculty member looking for a technical atlas or information on these approaches. … There are no other books I am aware of with an author list like this one or that is as well written.” (James J. Mezhir, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2015)
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"This book details management of upper GI malignancies using laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgical approaches. ... The audience is the chief, fellow, or faculty member looking for a technical atlas or information on these approaches. ... There are no other books I am aware of with an author list like this one or that is as well written." (James J. Mezhir, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2015)
