Main description:

This book provides simplified principles of surgical anatomy for colorectal cancers with sophisticated drawings, standard laparoscopic procedures with striking photographs and illustrations, and advanced procedures such as lateral pelvic node dissection and "down to top" or "reverse" total mesorectal excision.

Oncological safety as well as minimum invasiveness of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer has been acknowledged worldwide, based on long-term outcomes of several randomized controlled trials comparing laparoscopic surgery and open surgery. Developments in optical devices have provided us with a magnified clear vision of fine anatomical structures, facilitating our understanding of surgical anatomy and surgical procedures have been refined and improved accordingly.

All these topics are presented in this book-valuable for surgical residents and experts eager to learn more about laparoscopic colorectal surgery-and readers will be enlightened by a new paradigm for "lap-enhanced surgical anatomy". Therefore this volume will greatly benefit not only colorectal surgeons but also general surgeons as well as gastroenterologists and oncologists.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Principles of Anatomy.-

Chapter 2 Evidence of Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer.-

Chapter 3 Right-sided Colectomy (ileo-cecal resection, right-hemicolectomy, extended right-hemicolectomy).-

Chapter 4 Transverse Colectomy.-

Chapter 5 Left Sided Colectomy (mobilization of splenic, sigmoidectomy).-

Chapter 6 Laparoscopic Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) for Rectal Cancer.-

Chapter 7 Procedures of Right Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection (LPLND) with Pelvic Autonomic Nerve Preservation.-

Chapter 8 Restorative Proctocolectomy.-

Chapter 9 Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery for Rectal Cancer.-

Chapter 10 Robotic Total Mesorectal Excision.