Each year, Advances in Surgery brings you the best current thinking from the preeminent practitioners in your field. A distinguished editorial board identifies current areas of major progress and controversy and invites specialists to contribute original articles on these topics. These insightful overviews bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Inguinal Hernia - p. 7 6. Is It Safe to Follow Side Branch IPMNs? - p. 12 7. Endoscopic Myotomy for Achalasia - p. 18 8. Can Interventionalists do Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair As Well As Vascular Surgeons? - p. 24 9. Does Walking Speed Predict Postoperative Morbidity? - p. 29 10. Does Close Temperature Regulation Affect Surgical Site Infection Rates? - p. 35 11. The Utility of the Robot in Pancreatic Resections - p. 42 12. Current Treatment for Small (<5 cm) Hepatocellular Carcinoma - p. 50 13. Screening for Pancreatic Cancer - p. 58 14. Tissue Engineering - p. 71 15. Acute Cholecystitis - p. 81 16. Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors - p. 87 17. Readmission After Surgery - p. 96 18. What Is Wrong with the Training of General Surgery? - p. 103 19. Aspirin, Clopidogrel, and the Surgeon - p. 108 20. Islet Autotransplantation and Total Pancreatectomy - p. 115 21. Liver Transplantation for Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors - p. 121 22. Irreversible Electroporation - p. 129 23. Index - p. 132
Each year, Advances in Surgery brings you the best current thinking from the preeminent practitioners in your field. A distinguished editorial board identifies current areas of major progress and controversy and invites specialists to contribute original articles on these topics. These insightful overviews bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. Inguinal Hernia - p. 7 6. Is It Safe to Follow Side Branch IPMNs? - p. 12 7. Endoscopic Myotomy for Achalasia - p. 18 8. Can Interventionalists do Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair As Well As Vascular Surgeons? - p. 24 9. Does Walking Speed Predict Postoperative Morbidity? - p. 29 10. Does Close Temperature Regulation Affect Surgical Site Infection Rates? - p. 35 11. The Utility of the Robot in Pancreatic Resections - p. 42 12. Current Treatment for Small (<5 cm) Hepatocellular Carcinoma - p. 50 13. Screening for Pancreatic Cancer - p. 58 14. Tissue Engineering - p. 71 15. Acute Cholecystitis - p. 81 16. Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors - p. 87 17. Readmission After Surgery - p. 96 18. What Is Wrong with the Training of General Surgery? - p. 103 19. Aspirin, Clopidogrel, and the Surgeon - p. 108 20. Islet Autotransplantation and Total Pancreatectomy - p. 115 21. Liver Transplantation for Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors - p. 121 22. Irreversible Electroporation - p. 129 23. Index - p. 132
