Main description:

This book covers the management of surgical diseases "through the eyes" of a clinician by providing an evidence-based approach to specific clinical dilemmas. The chapters take the reader through a step-by-step "decision-making" approach to commonly encountered, but difficult to manage, situations where the editors share their rationale behind the process. Emphasis is placed on the use of tables and algorithms to simplify understanding. They aim to empower the readers with the ability to manage complex abdominal surgery scenarios in a streamlined manner, thus improving the care and outcome of patients.

Key Features

Targets specific, difficult to manage scenarios

Provides expert opinion/advice on how to tackle tricky situations

Covers both benign and malignant cases
Examines surgical dilemmas through illustrations

Contents:

PART 1: Esophagus

Chapter 1 Acute presentation (Boerhaave's Syndrome)

Chapter 2 Endoscopic Biopsy Demonstrating High-Grade Dysplasia in Barrett's Esophagus

Chapter 3 Dysphagia Six Weeks Following Accidental Corrosive Ingestion

Chapter 4 Symptomatic Giant Hiatal Hernia with Intrathoracic Stomach

Chapter 5 Non-Metastatic Esophageal Cancer with Enlarged Carinal Lymph Nodes with Previous Sleeve Gastrectomy

Chapter 6 Post-Esophagectomy Mediastinal Leak

Chapter 7 Post-Esophagectomy (for Esophageal Cancer) Neck Leak

PART 2: Stomach

Chapter 8 Obese Patient (BMI 32) with Reflux Disease and Diabetes Mellitus

Chapter 9 Locally Advanced Resectable Gastric Cancer

Chapter 10 Locally advanced Unresectable Gastric cancer

Chapter 11 Post Total Gastrectomy Complications: Duodenal Stump Leak

Chapter 12 Post Total Gastrectomy Complications: Esophagojejunal Anastomosis Leak

Chapter 13 Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor with Bleeding

PART 3: Duodenum

Chapter 14 Two Centimeter D1-2 Anterior Perforation Presenting 24 Hours Later

Chapter 15 Biliary Leak after Pancreatoduodenectomy for Duodenal Neuroendocrine tumors

Chapter 16 Duodenal neuroendocrine tumors: A Discrete 1 cm Lesion on D2 - Antipancreatic Surface vs Pancreatic Surface

PART 4: Small and Large Intestines

Chapter 17 Crohn's Disease: Multiple Diffuse Strictures with Three Episodes of Subacute Intestinal Obstruction in One Year on Monoclonal Antibodies

Chapter 18 An Acute Embolic Event Affecting the Superior Mesenteric Artery

Chapter 19 Post-Colonic Anastomotic Leak

Chapter 20 Toxic Megacolon in Crohn's Colitis

Chapter 21 Colonic Perforation Pelvic Collection with Air in a Hemodynamically Stable Patient

Chapter 22 Non-Obstructing Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumor with Liver Metastasis

PART 5: Rectum

Chapter 23 Transsphincteric Fistula-in-Ano with External Opening 3 cm from Anal Verge

Chapter 24 Familial Adenomatous Polyposis: 19-Year-Old Patient with Severe Rectal Involvement

Chapter 25 Management of Rectal Cancer in a Young Woman

PART 6: Gallbladder and Biliary Tree

Chapter 26 Acute Cholecystitis: Four Days Duration with a Palpable Lump

Chapter 27 Intraoperative Cholangiogram Shows <1 cm Stone at the Lower End

Chapter 28 Incidentally Detected 7 mm Gallbladder Polyp

Chapter 29 Gallbladder Cancer with Obstructive Jaundice and Periportal Lymph Node

Chapter 30 Mid Common Bile Duct Cholangiocarcinoma Involving the Portal Vein and Right Branch of the Hepatic Artery

PART 7: Liver

Chapter 31 Hydatid Cyst of the Liver

Chapter 32 Pyogenic Liver Abscess

Chapter 33 Hepatocellular Carcinoma: 10 cm Lesion in a Child-Pugh A Cirrhotic Patient

Chapter 34 Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Three Discrete 2 cm Lesions in hte Right Lobe with a 1 cm Central Lesion in the Segment 2/3

Chapter 35 Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Bilobar Metastatic Disease That Has Completely Disappeared Following Systemic Chemotherapy

PART 8: Pancreas

Chapter 36 Pyrexia Two Weeks after an Attack of Alcohol-Induced Acute Pancreatitis

Chapter 37 Ten-Year History of Chronic Pancreatitis Presents with Pancreatic Head Mass

Chapter 38 Chronic Pancreatitis: Small Duct Disease with Uncontrolled Pain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 39 Multifocal Branch Duct Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm with 3 cm Lesion in Head of Pancreas

Chapter 40 Resectable Pancreatic Cancer Post Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Obesity

Chapter 41 Managing a Grade C Pancreatic Fistula after Pancreatoduodenectomy

Chapter 42 Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis Post-Pancreatoduodenectomy

PART 9: Spleen

Chapter 43 Grade 3 Isolated Splenic Laceration with Hemodynamic Instability

PART 10: Inferior Vena Cava

Chapter 44 Malignant Inferior Vena Cava Leiomyosarcoma: Approach to a Tumor Involving the Right Renal Vein