The Role of Laparoscopy in Emergency Abdominal Surgery

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mandalà, Vincenzo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Updates in Surgery,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Abdominal surgery.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Abdominal Surgery.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.

This is the first time a book about laparoscopy in emergency abdominal surgery has been published. Numerous articles have been published in specific surgical journals, but, until now, there has not been a book that collates all the aspects of this little-known field. The aim of this volume is to ach...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Diagnostic Laparoscopy.-2 Gastroduodenal Ulcer
• 3 Acute Cholecystitis
• 4 Acute Pancreatitis
• 5 Acute Appendicitis
• 6 Acute Diverticulitis
• 7 Small Bowel Obstruction due to Adhesions
• 8 Incarcerated Hernia
• 9 Mesenteric Ischemia
• 10 Gynecologic Disorders
• 11 Nonspecific Abdominal Pain
• 12 Digestive Bleeding and Laparoscopy
• 13 Laparoscopy in Acute Postoperative Complications
• 14 After Laparoendoscopic Surgery
• 15 Abdominal Trauma and Laparoscopy.