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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462876303321

Autore

Cohn Stephen M.

Titolo

Surgery : evidence-based practice / / Stephen M. Cohn, Steven T. Brower

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Shelton, Connecticut : , : People's Medical Publishing House-USA, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-60795-242-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1017 p.)

Disciplina

617.91

Soggetti

Surgery

Evidence-based medicine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Surgery: Evidence-Based Practice ""; ""Contents ""; ""Contributors ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""1: Understanding the Elements that Comprise Evidence-Based Medicine ""; ""2: Patient Safety in Surgical Care""; ""3. The Esophagus""; ""4: Achalasia and Esophageal Spasms""; ""5: Esophageal Diverticula""; ""6: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease""; ""7: Inguinal Hernias""; ""8: Esophageal Caustic Injury""; ""9: Esophageal Tumors""; ""10: The Use of Esophageal Stents""; ""11: Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Treatment of Esophageal Cancer""; ""12: Esophageal Atresia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula""

""13: The Stomach""""14: Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome""; ""15: Evidence-Based Bariatric Surgery""; ""16: Gastric Adenocarcinoma""; ""17: Management of Upper GI Bleeding""; ""18: Small Bowel""; ""19: Crohn's Disease of the Small Bowel""; ""20: Small Bowel Tumors and Diverticular Disease of SB""; ""21: Enterocutaneous Fistula""; ""22: Short Bowel Syndrome""; ""23: Large Bowel""; ""24: Crohn's Colitis and Ulcerative Colitis""; ""25: Large Bowel Obstruction""; ""26: Radiation Injury to the Small and Large Bowel""; ""27: Ischemic Colitis""; ""28: Pseudomembranous Colitis""

""29: Colon and Rectal Cancer Including Adjuvant""""30: Tumors of the Anal Region""; ""31: Inherited Colorectal Cancer Syndromes""; ""32:



Preoperative Bowel Preparation""; ""33: Appendicitis""; ""34: Hemorrhoids""; ""35: Anorectal Fissure, Stricture, Abscess, and Fistula""; ""36: Fecal Incontinence and Surgical Management of Constipation""; ""37: Rectovaginal Fistula""; ""38: Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding""; ""39: The Liver""; ""40: Hepatic Infections: Pyogenic Abscess, Amebic Abscess, and Hydatid Cyst""; ""41: Malignant Liver Tumors""; ""42: Portal Hypertension""

""43: Management of Intractable Ascites: The Evidence""""44: Hepatic Encephalopathy""; ""45: Elective Non-hepatic Surgery in Cirrhotic Patients""; ""46: The Gallbladder and Bile Ducts""; ""47: Acute Cholecystitis""; ""48: Common Bile Duct Stones""; ""49: Benign Biliary Strictures""; ""50: Gallstones Ileus""; ""51: Bile Duct and Gallbladder Tumors""; ""52: Obstructive Jaundice: Transhepatic and Endoscopic Interventions""; ""53: The Pancreas""; ""54: Infected Pancreatic Collections""; ""55: Pancreatic Pseudocysts""; ""56: Chronic Pancreatitis""; ""57: Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma""

""58: Unusual Pancreatic Tumors""""59: The Spleen""; ""60: Tumors, Cysts, and Abscesses of the Spleen""; ""61: Splenic Salvage""; ""62: Postsplenectomy Sepsis""; ""63: Hernia""; ""64: Recurrent Inguinal Hernia""; ""65: Epigastric and Umbilical Hernia""; ""66: Incisional and Ventral Hernias""; ""67: Endocrine Glands""; ""68: Pheochromocytoma""; ""69: Thyroid Nodules""; ""70: Hyperthyroidisn, Thyroiditis, and Nontoxic Goiter""; ""71: Hyperparathyroidism""; ""72: The Breast""; ""73: Breast Cancer: Surgical Therapy""; ""74: Breast Cancer: Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy""

""75: Systemic Treatment Strategies for Early-Stage Breast Cancers""