Minimally Invasive Surgical Oncology

Hardcover - 579 pages


Minimally Invasive Surgical Oncology is aimed at the minimal invasive surgeon as well as at the general surgeon and
surgical trainee who wish to explore this field. It covers disciplines like gastroenterology, gynecology, urology,
thoracic and pediatrics and builds bridges to oncologists and internal medicine. It gives a state-of-the art overview
and perspectives for future developments and research as well. The book serves as an operative guide for a new
generation of surgeons and offers the extraordinary feature being a text book, an operative atlas and a quick reference
guide as well. The reader is provided with a tool in hand which synthesizes the latest knowledge in traditional
therapies like chemotherapies and gives a comprehensive overview how to proceed in treating a cancer patient using
minimal access techniques.


Table of Contents
xix
Contents
Part I General Topics
1 Minimally Invasive Surgery ?The Pioneers . 3
George Berci and Masanobu Hagiike
2 Evolution of Minimally Invasive Surgery
and Its Impact on Surgical Residency Training . 11
Adrian E. Park and Tommy H. Lee
3 Laparoscopy and Research in Surgical Oncology:
Current State of the Art and Future Trends . . 23
Dominic King, Henry Lee, and Lord Ara Darzi
4 Moral and Ethical Issues in Laparoscopy
and Advanced Surgical Technologies . . . . . . 39
Richard M. Satava
5 Robotic Applications in Surgical Oncology . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Scott J. Belsley
6 Laparoscopy and Malignancy ?General Aspects . . 59
Shigeru Tsunoda and Glyn G. Jamieson
7 Laparoscopy and Immunology . . . . 69
Michael J. Grieco and Richard Larry Whelan
8 Pneumoperitoneum and Its Effects on Malignancy . . . . 83
Alan T. Lefor and Atsushi Shimizu
9 Laparoscopy in the Elderly . . . . . 97
Michael Ujiki and Nathaniel Soper
10 Transluminal Surgery: Is There a Place
for Oncological Procedures? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Patricia Sylla and David W. Rattner
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Part II Special Topics: Cancer of the Esophagus
and the Gastro-Esophageal Junction
11 Cancer of the Esophagus and the Gastroesophageal
Junction: Two-Cavity Approach . . . . . . 125
Christopher R. Morse, Omar Awais, and James D. Luketich
12 Cancer of the Esophagus and the Gastroesophageal Junction:
Transhiatal Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Lee Swanstrom and Michael Ujiki
Part III Special Topics: Cancer of the Stomach
13 Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy ?LADG . . . . 149
Mutter Didier, O.A. Burckhardt, and Perretta Silvana
14 Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy ?LATG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Seigo Kitano, Norio Shiraishi, Koji Kawaguchi, and Kazuhiro Yasuda
15 Endoluminal Procedures for Early Gastric Cancer . . . . . . . . . 167
Brian J. Dunkin and Rohan Joseph
Part IV Special Topics: Small Bowel
16 Laparoscopic Management of Small Bowel Tumors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Miguel Burch, Brian Carmine, Daniel Mishkin, and Ronald Matteotti
Part V Special Topics: Cancer of the Colon and Rectum
17 Right Hemicolectomy and Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Antonio M. Lacy
18 Left Hemicolectomy and Sigmoid Colon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Joel Leroy, Ronan Cahill, and Jacques Marescaux
19 Laparoscopic Rectal Procedures . . . . . 235
Rolv-Ole Lindsetmo and Conor P. Delaney
Part VI Special Topics: Cancer of the Hepato-Biliary System
20 General Considerations . . . . . . . 253
Jonathan P. Pearl and Jeffrey L. Ponsky
21 Liver: Nonanatomical Resection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Fumihiko Fujita, Susumu Eguchi, Yoshitsugu Tajima,
and Takashi Kanematsu
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22 Liver ?Anatomical Liver Resections . . . . . 273
Bruto Randone, Ronald Matteotti, and Brice Gayet
23 Cancer of the Gallbladder and Extrahepatic Bile Ducts . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Andrew A. Gumbs, Angel M. Rodriguez-Rivera, and John P. Hoffman
Part VII Special Topics: Spleen
24 Spleen: Hematological Disorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Eduardo M. Targarona, Carmen Balague, and Manuel Trias
Part VIII Special Topics: Endocrinology
25 Cancer of the Thyroid . . . . . . . . . 331
Prashant Sinha and William B. Inabnet
26 Cancer of the Parathyroid . . 355
Paolo Miccoli, Gabriele Materazzi, and Piero Berti
27 Cancer of the Pancreas: Distal Resections and Staging
of Pancreatic Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Vivian E. Strong, Joshua Carson, and Peter J. Allen
28 Cancer of the Pancreas: The Whipple Procedure . . . . . . 379
Michael L. Kendrick
29 Cancer of the Adrenal Gland . . . . . . 389
Ronald Matteotti, Luca Milone, Daniel Canter, and Michel Gagner
Part IX Special Topics: Gynecology
30 Minimally Invasive Management of Gynecologic Malignancies . . . . 407
Farr Reza Nezhat, Jennifer Eun Sun Cho, Connie Liu,
and Gabrielle Gossner
Part X Special Topics: Urology
31 Cancer of the Kidney . . . . . 447
Daniel J. Canter and Robert G. Uzzo
32 Cancer of the Prostate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Gino J. Vricella and Lee E. Ponsky
33 Cancer of the Urinary Bladder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
Kevin P. Asher and David S. Wang
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Part XI Special Topics: Pediatrics
34 Minimally Invasive Management
of Pediatric Malignancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Arjun Khosla, Todd A. Ponsky, and Steven S. Rothenberg
Part XII Special Topics: Lung and Mediastinum
35 Minimally Invasive Management of Intra-Thoracic
Malignancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Philip A. Linden
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
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