Colorectal Surgery Illustrated: A Focused Approach

This atlas focuses on specific technical details of surgical procedures. The concept of this atlas is to go beyhond illustrating standard steps in an operation to focus the reader's attention on those specific techniques that enhance the safety, precision, or effectiveness of the operation. These focus points are highlighted in the text and in some accompanying illustrations. As most readers should be relatively advanced in knowledge of surgical techniques, some basic steps have been omitted in order to emphasis more advanced technical details. Only technical, operative aspects of colorectal surgery are emphasized. The reader is referred to more comprehensive textbooks for further discussion. Features include: standard techniques in the following areas - abdominal procedures, intestinal stomas, anorectal procedures and endoscopy.