Minimal access surgery, Part I
By: Carol E.H. Scott-Conner, guest editor.
Contributors: Scott-Conner, Carol E. H.
Series: Surgical clinics of North America -- v. 80, no. 4
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1372
Subjects: Laparoscopy.; Laparoscopic surgery.
Notes: "August 2000"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Special problems in laparoscopic surgery: previous abdominal surgery, obesity, and pregnancy / Myriam J. Curet; value: Role of laparoscopy in the staging of malignant disease / Broc L. Pratt, Frederick L. Greene; value: Update on laparoscopic cholecystectomy, including a clinical pathway / Thomas R. Gadacz; value: Laparoscopic sonography of the biliary tree and pancreas / Michael J. Menack, Maurice E. Arregui; value: Interventional endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic surgery / Donald N. Reed, Jr., Gary C. Vitale; value: Laparoscopic management of benign liver disease / Namir Katkhouda, Eli Mavor; value: Laparoscopic esophageal surgery / David J. Bowrey, Jeffrey H. Peters; value: Paraesophageal hernia / Margrét Oddsdóttir; value: Laparoscopic bariatric surgery / Bruce David Schirmer; value: Laparoscopic gastric resection / Alfred Cuschieri; value: Laparoscopic splenectomy / Namir Katkhouda, Eli Mavor; value: Laparoscopic colectomy in diverticular and Crohn's disease / Steven D. Wexner, Isay D. Moscovitz; value: Laparoscopic colectomy / Amanda M. Metcalf; value: Ventral hernia repair by the laparoscopic approach / Gerald M. Larson; value: Laparoscopic hernia repairs: the importance of cost as an outcome measurement at the century's end / Lee L. Swanstrom; value: Preparing surgeons for the 21st century: implications of advanced technologies / Richard M. Satava, Shaun B. Jones.