BookA. Cuschieri, G. Buess, J. Périssat (eds.).
Summary: This guide is dedicated to a rapidly developing and continuously expanding area of surgery. All indications and conditions where this state-of-the-art method can be used are treated systematically in this comprehensive work. All of the authors and editors are pioneers of worldwide repute in their respective techniques. Special emphasis has been placed on highly informative diagrams which form an instructive complement to the numerous "real-time" figures taken directly during operative procedures through the endoscope. The clear text and the impressive high-quality illustrations make the book an essential and unique companion for every surgeon who wishes to become familiar with the new tecniques which today's patients expect from a first-class surgeon
Contents:
Introduction and Historical Aspects / A. Cuschieri and G. Buess
1. Nature and Scope of Endoscopic Surgery / A. Cuschieri and G. Buess
2. Instruments for Endoscopic Surgery / A. Melzer, G. Buess and A. Cuschieri
3. Video Imaging and Photodocumentation / M. Paz-Partlow
4. Ancillary Technology: Electrocautery, Thermocoagulation and Laser / H.-D. Reidenbach, J. Keckstein and G. Buess
5. Requirements for an Endoscopic Surgery Unit / G. Buess and A. Cuschieri
6. Training in Endoscopic Surgery / G. Buess and A. Cuschieri
7. Basic Surgical Procedures / A. Cuschieri, L.K. Nathanson and G. Buess
8. General Principles of Thoracoscopic Surgery / A. Cuschieri
9. Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy and Vagotomy / R. Wittmoser
10. Thoracoscopic Ligation of Pleural Bullae and Parietal Pleurectomy for Recurrent Spontaneous Pneumothorax. Treatment of Empyema and Pericardiectomy / A. Cuschieri and L.K. Nathanson
11. Thoracoscopic Oesophageal Myotomy for Motility Disorders / A. Cuschieri, L.K. Nathanson and S.M. Shimi
12. Perivisceral Endoscopic Oesophagectomy / G. Buess, H.D. Becker and G. Lenz
13. General Principles of Laparoscopic Surgery / A. Cuschieri
14. Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Laparoscopic Adhesiolysis / A. Cuschieri
15. Laparoscopic Appendicectomy / A. Pier and F. Gotz
16. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy / J. Perissat
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