Difficult Decisions in Colorectal Surgery

This book looks at the highest quality evidence available to guide management decisions in colorectal surgery. The chapters, written by a select and highly respected group of leaders in this field, critically review evidence in a controversial area each author has contributed to and investigated dur...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hyman, Neil (Editor), Umanskiy, Konstantin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • How do we select the operation for pts with rectal prolapse?
  • Benign anal disease/ Optimal management of the transsphincteric anal fistula
  • Management of the recurrent anovaginal fistula
  • When to do surgery for the pt with an anal fissure
  • Management of the recurrent fissure after LIS
  • Third degree hemorrhoids-Who really needs surgery?
  • Which patients with fecal incontinence require physiologic workup?
  • Who are the right candidates for sacral nerve stimulation?
  • When is an anal sphincter repair indicated?
  • Quality improvement/ What role checklists?
  • Where are we with bowel preps for patients undergoing colon resection?.-Are fast track pathways for laparoscopic surgery needed?
  • What are the right ingredients for a successful fast track pathway for open surgery?
  • Preventing readmission after colon and rectal surgery
  • Technique/ What is the best approach to transanal surgery: TEM vs TAMIS vs traditional transanal excision.-/ Lap vs robotic vs open surgery for rectal cancer
  • Reservoir construction after LAR-Who and what?
  • Hand assisted vs multiport vssingle port approaches to laparoscopic colectomy
  • Management of an anastomotic leak after LAR
  • Management of the unhealed perineal wound after proctectomy
  • Rectal cancer/ Management of T1 rectal cancer
  • Management of T2 rectal cancer
  • Management of the pt with a complete clinical response after neoadjuvant chemoradiation
  • Management of the patient with rectal cancer presenting with synchronous liver metastases
  • Who needs a loop ileostomy after LAR for rectal cancer?
  • Selection factors for reoperative surgery for local recurrent rectal cancer
  • Anal dysplasia/ Management of patients with AIN 3
  • Management of the abnormal pap smear in HIV positive patients
  • Benign colon disease/ Indications for surgery in patients with severe C dificile colitis
  • Do we need to operate on patients after successful percutaneous drainage of a diverticular abscess?
  • Acute surgery for Hinchey 3 diverticulitis-resect or washout?
  • Surgery for acute complicated diverticulitis-Hartmann vs primary anastomosis
  • Who needs elective surgery for recurrent diverticulitis?
  • Deciding on IRA vs IPAA for FAP
  • Introduction
  • Evaluating evidence.-IBD/ Management of symptomatic anal fistulas in pts with Crohn’s disease
  • Management of a painful anal fissure and skin tags in pts with Crohn’s disease
  • Elective surgical management in patients with ulcerative colitis-how many stages?
  • Which UC patients should not have IPAA?
  • Management of pouch-vaginal fistulas
  • IPAA for Crohn’s colitis?
  • Steroid management in patients undergoing surgery for IBD
  • Management of dysplasia in patients with ulcerative colitis
  • Postoperative prophylaxis in patients with Crohn’s disease
  • Colon cancer/ Followup in patients after curative resection for colon cancer
  • Management of patients with acute large bowel obstruction from colon cancer,- Management of patients with colon cancer and synchronous liver metastases
  • Management of the patient with an endoscopically unresectable cecal polyp
  • Role of chemotherapy for resected Stage 2 colon cancer