Colon and Rectal Surgery provides comprehensive coverage of all diseases and traumatic injuries affecting the colon, rectum, and anus and offers step by step instructions on every operative procedure currently used to treat these disorders.

Colon and Rectal Surgery includes thorough reviews of anatomy, physiology, and related medical topics and an extensive section on diagnostic studies, particularly ultrasound and other radiologic imaging modalities.

Colon and Rectal Surgery features:

• Includes normal and abnormal anatomy
• Large section on radiologic studies
• Highly illustrated
• Step-by-step instruction
• Historical footnotes throughout

Contents

1. Anatomy and Embryology of the Anus, Rectum, and Colon

• Embryology
• Anatomy of the Colon

2. Physiology of the Colon

• Functional Classification
• Digestion
• Colonic Absorption and Secretion
• Colonic Motility

3. Diet and Drugs in Colorectal Surgery

• Bowel Management Problems

4. Evaluating and Diagnostic Techniques

• History
• Physical Examination
• Barrium Enema
• Decfecography
• Ultrasound
• Computed Tomography
• Virtual Colonscopy
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Positron Emmission Tomography
• Radiology of the Small Intestine
• Exfoliative Cytology
• Occult Blood Determination of Stool
• Feces Collection
• Intravenous Pyelography and Urologic Evaluation
• Flexible Sigmoidoscopy and Colonscopy
• Physiologic Studies

5. Flexible Sigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy

• Flexible Fiberoptic Sigmoidoscopy and Videoendoscopy
• Colonoscopy
• Barium Enema and Virtual Colonoscopy Versus Colonoscopy

6. Setting Up a Colorectal Physiology Laboratory

• Manometry
• Manovolumetry
• Defecography (Evacuation Proctography)
• Emptying Studies
• Perineography
• Perineometry
• Endoluminal Ultrasound
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Colonic Transit Study
• Small Bowel Transit
• Small Bowel, Colonic, and Rectal Motility
• Electromyography
• Pudendal Nerve Terminal Motor Latency
• Anorectal Sensation
• Biofeedback

7. Analgesia in Colon and Rectal Surgery

• Opiates
• Ketorolac
• Epidural Analgesia
• Balanced Analgesia

8. Hemorrhoids

• Etiology and Anatomy
• Physiology
• Classification
• Differential Diagnosis
• Signs and Symptoms
• Examination
• General Principles of Treatment
• Ambulatory Treatment
• Treatment of Thrombosed Hemorrhoids
• Gangerous, Prolapsed, Edematous Hemorrhoids
• Operative Approaches to the Treatment of Hemorrhoids
• Hemorrhoids in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Hemorrhoidectomy in the HIV-Positive Patient
• Hemorrhoidectomy during Pregnancy

9. Anal Fissures

• Etiology adn Pathogenesis
• Physiologic Studies
• Histopathology
• Symptoms
• Examination
• Treatment
• Chronic Anal Fissure

10. Anorectal Abscess

• Etiology and Pathogenesis
• Age and Sex
• Types of Abscess
• Complications and Other Causes of Perianal Infections

11. Anal Fistula

• Symptoms
• Classification
• Practice Parameters for Treatment
• Identification of the Fistula Tract
• Principles of Surgical Treatment
• Surgical Approaches

12. Rectovaginal and Rectourethral Fistulas

• Rectovaginal Fistula
• Rectovaginal Cyst
• Recoturethral Fistula
• Anterior Perineal Sinus of Cyst

...and chapters 13-30

31. Intestinal Stomas

• Preparing the Patient
• Laparoscopic-Assisted Stomal Creation
• Colonoscopic-Assisted Stomal Creation
• Percutaneous Endoscopic Colostomy
• Sigmoid Colostomy
• Transverse Colostomy
• Cecostomy
• Ileostomy
• Continent Ileostomy Device
• Patient Evaluation of Results: Lifestyle and Sexual Function
• Loop Ileostomy

32. Enterostomal Therapy

• Preoperative Care
• Stomal Function and Care
• Ostomy Management
• Additional Information Resources

33. Miscellaneous Colitides

• Noninfectious Colitides
• Infectious Colitides
• Viral Infections
• Fungal Infections
• Parasitic Infection

34. Mediocolegal Aspects of Colon and Rectal Surgery

• Historical Background
• The Written Law
• The Unwritten Laws
• Special Situations in Colon and Rectal Surgery
• If You're Sued

Index

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