Liver and Biliary Surgery: Handbooks in General Surgery

by Kirby I. Bland (Editor), Michael G. Sarr (Editor), Markus W. Bïchler (Editor), Attila Csendes (Editor), Oliver James Garden (Editor)

Overview

Liver and Biliary Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to liver and biliary surgical therapy. The chapters provide pertinent and concise summaries of how to deal with various liver and biliary disorders, spanning benign and malignant problems and minimally invasive procedures. Stages of operative approaches with relevant technical considerations are outlined in an easily understandable manner. Complications are reviewed when appropriate for the organ system and problem. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict anatomic or technical principles. A concise, handbook-sized reference work, this book is a valuable resource for all general surgeons and residents in training.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849964289
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	10/13/2010
Series:	Handbooks in General Surgery
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

This book is edited by a team of experts from across the globe. Kirby I. Bland, MD, is based at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, in the USA, where he is the Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, and the Deputy Director at the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Michael G. Sarr, MD is the James C. Marson Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN in the USA. Markus W. Büchler, MD, is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Attila Csendes, MD FACS(Hon) is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University Hospital in Santiago, Chile. O. James Garden, MBChB MD FRCS(Ed) FRCP(Ed) FRACS(Hon), is the Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the UK. John Wong, BSc(Med(Syd)) MBBS(Syd) PhD(Syd) MD(Hon(Syd)) FRACS FRCS(Edin) FRCS(Glasg) FACS(Hon) is the Chair Professor for the Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong and Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, China.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Liver-Benign

1 Hepatitis John J. Poterucha 3

2 Differential Diagnosis of the Liver Mass Wei-Chen Lee Miin-Fu Chen 25

3 Benign Hepatic Neoplasms Juan Hepp 37

4 Hepatic Abscess: Current Concepts Sanchez M. William Hernando O. Abaunza 53

5 Portal Hypertension Héctor Orozco and Miguel Angel Mercado 69

6 Cystic Liver Diseases Catherine Hubert Laurence Annet Bernard E. VanBeers Yves Horsmans Jean-Francçois Gigot 85

7 Liver Transplantation for Budd-Chiari Syndrome François Durand Jacques Belghiti 111

8 Liver Hemangioma Alexis Laurent Alain Luciani Daniel Cherqui 125

Part 2 Liver-Malignant

9 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Sheung Tat Fan 137

10 Metastatic Cancer of the Liver Matteo Donadon Gareth Morris-Stiff Jean-Nicolas Vauthey 157

Part 3 Biliary Benign

11 Postcholecystectomy Syndrome Frank G. Moody 181

12 Asymptomatic Gallstones Robert V. Rege 191

13 Bile Duct Injury Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Stephen A. Boyce O. James Garden 201

14 Cholelithiasis Luis A. Ibañez Jean M. Butte Nicolás A. Devaud 221

15 Choledocholithiasis Toshiyuki Mori Yutaka Suzuki Masanori Sugiyama Yutaka Atomi 235

16 Choledochal Cysts Chi-Leung Liu 257

17 Biliary Dyskinesia: Functional Gallbladder and Sphincter of Oddi Disorders Cary B. Aarons Arthur F. Stucchi James M. Becker 265

18 Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Nicholas J. Zyromski Henry A. Pitt 289

Part 4 Billary-Malignant

19 Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma Yuji Nimura Hideki Nisho 307

20 Cancer of the Gallbladder Xabier A. de Aretxabala Ivan S. Roa 317

Part 5 Minimally Invasive Procedures

21 Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration Leslie Karl Nathanson 335

Index 349