Atlas Of Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Surgery May 2000 · Hardback · 336 Pages · 395 Illustrations

Jay T. Bishoff, MD, Director, Endourology Section, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX; Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
Louis R. Kavoussi, MD, Patrick C. Walsh Distinguished Professor, Director, Division of Endourology, The James Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
With 11 additional contributors
 

This new atlas focuses on delivering the most current laparoscopic techniques for diagnosing and treating kidney, adrenal, ureter, and lymph nodes disease. For each procedure, detailed drawings, from the surgeon's perspective, are accompanied by step-by-step instructions.

Features

• Provides a detailed chapter on the new laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, including patient preparation, positioning, trocar placement, dissection, bowel retraction, and organ retrieval.
• Features two complete chapters on increasingly popular radical and simple nephrectomy procedures.
• Organises procedure chapters consistently by subsections: introduction * pre-operative patient preparation * OR setup * patient positioning * trocar placement * surgical dissection * detailed, illustrated descriptions of the actual surgical procedure * postoperative considerations * and possible complications.
• Describes the basic, but important techniques, and reviews new equipment and techniques, including stapling and suture options, retraction, electrocautery, and coagulation/hemostasis.
• Includes a complete chapter on complications, presenting a detailed description of how to avoid complications and what to do when they occur.

Contents

Basic Techniques in Laparoscopy
Reconstruction
Closure Techniques
Nephrectomy - Simple
Nephrectomy - Radical
Nephroureterectomy
Nephrectomy - Donor
Cyst Marsupialization
Renal Biopsy
Ureteral Surgery
Adrenalectomy
Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Testis Cancer
Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection For Malignancy
Treating Complications