Advances in Abdominal Surgery

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. Although a common basis on the physiopathology of surgical trauma and post­ operative complications persi...

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Other Authors: Zanella, E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 9 Cystic tumors of the pancreas: serous cystadenoma and mucinous cystic neoplasm
  • Section III: Colo-Rectal Surgery
  • 10 A critical review of classification systems for colorectal cancer
  • 11 Standard surgery and adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer
  • 12 The follow-up in colorectal cancer
  • 13 Effect of peri-operative transfusion of whole blood Vs leucocyte-depleted blood on survival after curative surgery for colorectal cancer
  • 14 Radioimmunoguided surgery in colorectal carcinoma patients
  • 15 Immunobiological approach to colorectal cancer staging: biological markers, cellular “in situ” immunological response and intranuclear DNA imaging analysis. Old and new parameters.Retrospective evaluation and prospective trials after a fifteen year experience
  • Section IV: Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • 16 Minimally invasive surgeryfor esophageal diseases A.Peracchia, and R.Rosati
  • Section I: Surgical Infections
  • 1 Infected pancreatic necrosis complicated by multiple organ failure
  • 2 Correlation between peri-operative blood transfusion and post-operative infective complication
  • 3 In vitro antimicrobial activities of ? -lactams, Aminoglycosides, Quinolones, Glycopeptides and Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole against Gram-negative and Gram-positive Bacteria isolated from patients with intra-abdominal infections
  • 4 Acute acalculous cholecystitis.Clinical and experimental remarks
  • Section II: Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
  • 5 Small diameter porta-caval shunt with ringed PTFE prosthesis for the treatment of portal hypertension
  • 6 Renal failure complicating obstructive jaundice. An updating
  • 7 Hepatolithiasis, cystic dilatation of bile ducts and the variable risk of cholangiocarcinoma. Re-evaluation of an old problem
  • 8 Biliary stent occlusion: a microbiological and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) investigation
  • 17 Comparison between rectopexy by laparoscopy and laparotomy for complete rectal prolapse:clinical and functional results
  • Section V: Transplantation
  • 18 Renal function in patients with orthotopic liver transplantation
  • 19 National survey of primary sclerosing cholangitis: an emergent indication for new therapeutic strategies
  • 20 Pancreatic islet cell transplantation
  • Author index