MINIMALLY INVASIVE APPROACHES TO COLON AND RECTAL DISEASE. TECHNIQUE AND BEST PRACTICES

• Authors provide an ongoing narrative of his/her individual surgical techniques and perioperative “tips and tricks”
• Provides a clear, reproducible, step-by-step guide for each colorectal surgery operation
• Written by expert Colorectal Surgeons Provides links to online video clips demonstrating technical details.

This text provides a clear, reproducible, step-by-step guide for each colorectal surgery operation. The format follows that of both a “how to” manual as well as an algorithm-based guide to allow the reader to understand the thought process behind the proposed treatment strategy. Each chapter includes both operative technical details as well as perioperative “tips and tricks” that the authors utilize in the management of these complex surgical patients. In addition, it addresses the optimal “next step” in dealing with more challenging situations such as pregnancy, emergent surgery, the elderly, and the obese patient. Throughout the text, each author provides an ongoing narrative of his/her individual surgical techniques along with color illustrations and diagrams to “personally” take the reader through the crucial steps of the procedure, as well as key points of patient care inherent to that topic. Additionally, where appropriate, links to online or downloadable videos will give the reader an up-front look into technical aspects of traditional straight laparoscopic and hand-assisted minimally invasive surgery, as well as NOTES, transanal, robotic, single incision colectomy and combined laparoscopic-endoscopic resection.
Minimally Invasive Approaches to Colon and Rectal Disease: Technique and Best Practices will be of great utility to colorectal, general and oncologic surgeons who want to learn or improve their minimally invasive skills in colorectal surgery. Furthermore, this text will be of particular interest to the surgeons-in-training, and the general and colorectal surgeon who is often called upon to manage a variety of colorectal surgery conditions through a minimally invasive approach.

Table of contents (36 chapters)
1. Perioperative Assessment
2. Patient Positioning, Instrumentation, and Trocar Placement
3. Surgical Anatomy
4. Right Colectomy: Straight Laparoscopic
5. Right Colectomy: Hand-Assist
6. Laparoscopic Sigmoidectomy/Left Colectomy
7. Hand-Assisted Left Colectomy
8. Total Abdominal Colectomy: Straight Laparoscopic Approach
9. Total Abdominal Colectomy: Hand-Assisted Approach
10. Operative Details of Laparoscopic Rectal Resection for Cancer
11. Laparoscopic Hand-Assisted Low Anterior Resection
12. Laparoscopic Abdominoperineal Resection
13. Laparoscopic Proctocolectomy
14. Laparoscopic Rectopexy
15. Minimally Invasive Approach for Stoma Creation
16. Laparoscopic Stoma Reversal
17. Laparoscopic Parastomal Hernia Repair
18. Overcoming Technical Challenges: The Abdomen
19. Overcoming Technical Challenges: The Pelvis
20. Overcoming Technical Challenges: Reoperative Surgery
21. Overcoming Technical Challenges: Prevention and Managing Complications
22. Single-Incision Laparoscopic Approaches to Colorectal Disease
23. Natural Orifice Surgery (NOTES)
24. Robotic Surgery
25. Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery (TAMIS): Operative Technique, Pitfalls, and Tips
26. Combined Endo-Laparoscopic Surgery (CELS)
27. Emergent Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
28. Laparoscopy in the Elderly Patient
29. Laparoscopic Colectomy in the Obese Patient
30. Minimally Invasive Surgery in Crohn’s Disease Patients
31. Minimally Invasive Surgery in Ulcerative Colitis Patients
32. Minimally Invasive Approaches to Colon and Rectal Diseases: Technique and Best Practices—Pediatrics
33. Laparoscopy in Pregnant Patients
34. Economics of Laparoscopic Colectomy
35. Outcomes of Laparoscopic Surgery
36. Future Directions in Minimally Invasive Surgery