Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery

lt;p>Werner Hohenberger is Full Professor of Surgery, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany and Chair of the Surgical Department at the same university, where he had got his degree in 1973. Beside his long teaching career, during which he also worked as visiting professor in many universities abroad, such as the Cleveland Clinics, Ohio, USA and the Peking University People's Hospital, China, he has been dedicating great efforts within scientific societies in the field surgical oncology, which remains his chief clinical interest: He was President of the German Cancer Society, the German Cancer Congress, and Member of the Executive Committee of the German Senologic Society.

I COLON 1 Surgical anatomy and embryology.- 2 Appendectomy.- 3 Diverticulitis.- 4 Crohn's Disease.- 5. Ulcerative Colitis.- 6 Benign Tumor.- 7 Ileocecal, sigmoid volvulus.- 8 Surgery for cancer of the right colon.- 9 Surgery for cancer of the transverse colon and flectures.- 10 Surgery for cancer of the left colon.- 11 Multivisceral resections.- II RECTUM 12 Surgical anatomy and embryology.- 13 Benign tumors perianal excision including TEM.- 14 Rectal cancer, anterior/low, anterior resection with TME/PME.- 15 Lateral lymph node dissection.- 16 Abdominoperanal intersphincteric resection.- 17 Multivisceral resection.- 18 Intersphincteric, conventional and extralevator rectal excision - Gluteal muscle flap.- 19 Resection of pelvic bones.- 20 Flaps for reconstruction, VRAM flap.- III. PELVIC FLOOR, ANUS, AND ANAL CANAL 21  Anatomy and embryology.- 22 Haemorrhoids.- 23 Anal fistulas.- 24 Entero- and rectocele, rectal prolapse.- 25 Sphincter substitute.- 26 Sacral nerve stimulation.-27 Incontinence, sphincter repair.- 28 Perianal procedures (TEM, TAMIS).