Manual of Total Mesorectal Excision

Description

Manual of Total Mesorectal Excision is the authoritative manual for the trainee and qualified surgeon, covering every aspect of total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer. Written by the surgeons who pioneered and popularized TME, the book includes high-quality colour illustrations to detail the multidisciplinary management of rectal cancer, which aid understanding. It incorporates state-of-the-art pre-operative staging, optimal surgical excision by TME surgery and quality control and audit of outcomes by detailed pathological assessment of the resected specimen.

The first book to be dedicated to total mesorectal excision, Manual of Total Mesorectal Excision is an invaluable resource for both trainee and qualified surgeons.

Features

• Focuses on total mesorectal excision
• Presents an international perspective from the principal authors, who are the pioneering surgeons for the procedure
• Includes detailed full-color illustrations to demonstrate treatment and procedures
• Features the endorsement of the Pelican Foundation, the leading organization for research into bowel cancer surgery

Table of Contents

1. The evolution of a concept: the total mesorectal excision story
   R.J. Heald
2. Anatomy of the rectum, anal canal and pelvic floor
   Thilo Wedel
3. Clinical ultrasound
   Oliver Shihab and Arcot K. Venkatasubramaniam
4. Magnetic resonance imaging staging of rectal cancer
   Peter How and Gina Brown
5. Radiological staging for systemic disease
   Gina Brown and Chris Hunter
6. Preoperative radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer
   Rob Glynne-Jones and Mark Harrison
7. Total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer
   Brendan Moran
8. Abdominoperineal excision of the rectum
   Torbjoumrn Holm
9. Laparoscopic surgery
   Katharine E. Bevan, Tom D. Cecil and Brendan Moran
10. Robotic total mesorectal excision
    M. Chadwick, H.S. Tilney and A.M. Gudgeon
11. Local excision and transanal endoscopic microsurgery
    Wolfgang B. Gaertner and David A. Rothenberger
12. Pathology assessment
    Philip Quirke, Tim Palmer, Gordon G.A. Hutchins and Nick P. West
13. Assessment and management of recurrence
    Peter J. Lee, Kirk K.S. Austin and Michael J. Solomon
14. Lateral pelvic side-wall nodal involvement in rectal cancer
    Hideaki Yano and Brendan Moran
15. Intestinal stoma and the role of defunctioning a low anastomosis after anterior resection
    Steve Arnold, Kandiah Chandrakumaran and David Mitchell
16. Quality of life in patients undergoing abdominoperineal excision and anterior resection for rectal cancer
    Peter How and Kandiah Chandrakumaran

Author Bio(s)

Brendan Moran MCh FRCSI FRCS is a Consultant Surgeon at Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Trust, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Southampton University, UK

Richard John Heald OBE CBE MChir FRCS is Professor of Surgery and Clinical Director of the Pelican Cancer Foundation, Southampton University, UK and President of the Colostomy Association