Liver and Biliary Tract Surgery (eBook)

Constantine Ch. Karaliotas MD, PhD., Chairman of 2nd Surgical Department and Surgical Oncology Unit in Red Cross Hospital, Athens-Greece Christoph E. Broelsch, MD, FACS, Professor and Chairman, Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University Clinic Essen, Germany Nagy A. Habib, ChM, FRCS, Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.  

PREFACE 7
PREFACE 8
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 11
CONTENTS 12
SECTION 1 30
EMBRYOLOGICAL AND SURGICALANATOMY 0F THE INTRAHEPATIC AND EXTRAHEPATIC BILIARY TREE 31
SURGICAL ANATOMY OF THE LIVER 45
ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS AND ANOMALIESOF THE BILIARY TREE, VEINS AND ARTERIES 62
ULTRASONOGRAPHICAL ANATOMY FOR THE SURGEON. THE VALU E 0F INTRA- 0PERATIVE ULTRASONOGRAPHY 76
ELEMENTS OF THE BILIARY TRACT AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY 88
CONVENTIONAL IMAGING STUDIES OF THE BILIARY TRACT 95
ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADECHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY 112
ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY ON GALLBLADDER AND BILIARY TRACT 135
SECTION 2 143
HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE AND ANAESTHESIA 144
CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS IN THE EXTRAHEPATIC BILIARY TREE IN CHILDREN BILIARY ATRESIA 157
CH0LEDOCHAL CYSTS OF THE BILIARY TREE IN CHILDREN 164
GALLSTONE DISEASE 169
COMPLICATIONS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY.WHAT CAN GO WRONG? HOW DO COMPLICATIONS HAVE TO BE MANAGED? 188
IATROGENIC INJURY OF THE EXTRAHEPATICBILE DUCTS. SURGICAL RECONSTRUCTION 198
PRINCIPLES OF THE SURGICAL MANAGEMENTOF THE COMMON BILE DUCT STONES 211
LAPAROSCOPIC COMMON BILE DUCT EXPLORATION 237
ENDOSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF COMMON BILE DUCT STONES 244
CURRENT CHANGES IN BILIARY REOPERATIONSFOR BENIGN LESIONS 255
OTHER BENIGN BILIARY DISEASES AND LESIONS 259
CHOLANGITIS 269
CANCER OF THE EXTRAHEPATIC BILIARY TRACT 283
BILE DUCT CANCER 295
ENDOSCOPIC PALLIATIVEMANAGEMENT OF THE MALIGNANCIESOF THE BILIARY TRACT 305
OPERATIONS OF THE BILIARY TRACT. TECHNICAL ASPECTS 313
SECTION 3 330
IMAGING STUDIES OF THE LIVER 331
THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D)COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES RECONSTRUCTION IN LIVER SURGERY 346
PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF LIVER FUNCTION 352
INDICATIONS FOR LIVER RESECTION 370
LIVER RESECTION AND STAPLING DEVICES- LAPAROSCOPIC RESECTION 376
LIVER RESECTION ASSISTED WITH THE RADIOFREQUENCY TECHNIQUE 380
LIVER RESECTIONFOR CHOLANGIOCARClNOMA 386
PORTAL VEIN EMBOLISATION 393
HEPATIC CHEMOEMBOLIZATION 409
SELECTIVE INTERNAL RADIATION THERAPY ( SIRT) IN THE MANAGEMENT OF LIVER TUMOURS 420
RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION ( RFA) OF LIVER TUMOURS 432
STEM CELL THERAPY IN LIVER DISEASE 444
LIVER GENE THERAPY: WILL GENE THERAPY D E LIVE R TO TH E LIVE R PATI E NT? 451
LIVER TRAUMA 460
HYDATID CYST 0F THE LIVER 480
HEPATIC ABSCESS 495
BENIGN LIVER TUMOURS 514
NON- PARASITIC DISEASES OF THE LIVER AND INTRAHEPATIC BILIARY TREE 521
SECTION 4 533
LIVER TRANSPLANTATION 534
Indications for Liver Transplantation 536
Patient Evaluation 539
0PERATIVE DATA 542
LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION 551
INTENSIVE CARE UNIT MANAGEMENT 563
PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS 565
RECURRENT DISEASES AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION 572
OUTCOME OF LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IN SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF PATIENS 580
COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERYPLANNING ( CASP) IN ADULT- TO- ADULT LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATI0N (ALDLT) 582
CONCLUSION 629
INDEX 630