Coloproctology is an essential aid for those who need a practical understanding of particularly complex procedures in this specialty.

Edited and authored by outstanding surgeons in their fields, this book brings the reader expertise in surgery and management across the various conditions encountered in colorproctology, from Sigmoid Diverticulitis to colorectal cancer.

Didactic in its approach, this book is key reading for trainees in coloproctology as well as senior surgical coloproctologists who wish to extend their knowledge of this important field.

Autorentext

Andrew P. Zbar, MB BS, FRCS (Ed.), FRCS (Gen.), FRACS, FCCS Professor of General and Colorectal Surgery Queen Elizabeth Hospital Barbados 2002-PRESENT. Trained in Australia in General Surgery 1978-1993. Postgraduate colorectal work in anorectal physiology and colorectal cancer immunology and immunotherapy London Hammersmith Hospital 1993-1999. Co-Director of Coloproctology at Kaplan Hospital Tel Aviv 2000-2002. Specialist areas of interest are in functional anorectal disorders, colorectal cancer immunology and imaging of complex anorectal disorders.

Steven D Wexner, MD, FACS, FRCS, FRCSED, Chair, Advisory Council for Colon and Rectal Surgery (1998-2003), American College of Surgeons; Chair (2003), Intl Committee, Chair (2003), Intl Advisory Committee, Chair (2003), Membership Committee, Program Committee (2003), American Society for Colon and Rectal Surgeons; In 1993 helped establish the Young Surgeons Committee which offers an exchange program with the Association of Coloproctology of GB & Ireland; Ed Board of Diseases of the Colon & Rectum.

John S.P. Lumley, MS, FRCS, DMCC, FMAA(Hon), FGA, Professor of Vascular Surgery, University of London, Civilian Consultant to the Royal Navy in Vascular Surgery; Honorary Consultant Surgeon, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK

Zusammenfassung

Coloproctology is a surgical specialty which dynamically changes every few years. There is a profusion of colorectal textbooks but specialty series on particularly complex topics as well as on the specialized management approach for trainees and training colorectal surgeons are actually few. The aim of this text is a superior quality colorectal book written by world experts targeted at senior surgical and colorectal trainees and young consultant coloproctologists in current areas of subspecialty expertise. The structure of the chapters is current and is based on what does not appear and is not addressed in current colorectal textbooks. This series has proven useful in areas already represented, including Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery, Transplantation Surgery, etc. The text is aimed at being relatively didactic with an algorithm approach to specialized areas within coloproctology which could potentially be updated every 3 years or so with new topics to create a set for didactic training in colorectal surgery. It is anticipated that these texts will become valuable teaching textbooks and part of every coloproctologist's armamentarium as well as appealing to all general surgeons and surgical trainees engaged in complex elective and emergency colorectal surgery.

Inhalt
Genetic Approaches to Colorectal Cancer.- Multivisceral Resection in Rectal Cancer.- Colonic Stenting.- Chemotherapy Trials for Colorectal Cancer in Advanced Disease: What's the Current Hypothesis?.- Current Clinical Trials in Radiotherapy for Rectal Cancer.- Quality of Life Issues and Rectal Cancer.- Managing Presacral Tumors.- Revisional Pouch Surgery.- Surgery for Fecal Incontinence.- Recurrent Rectal Cancer.- The Surgical Management of Evacutory Dysfunction.- New Approaches in Perineal Crohn's Disease.- Complex Anal Fistula.- Rectovaginal and Rectourethral Fistula.- Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound in Proctologic Practice.- Changing Paradigms in the Treatment of Sigmoid Diverticulitis.