Recent Concepts in Minimal Access Surgery (eBook)

The book covers the recent developments in various aspects of minimal access surgery (laparoscopic and robotic surgery), which is fairly a new branch of surgery that has advanced tremendously in last few years. This is the first volume of the set of books on recent concepts in minimal access surgery. It provides step-by-step descriptions accompanied by numerous helpful photographs and anatomical drawings. It also includes the controversies and gives a cumulative opinion on the recent changes developing in minimal access surgery (MAS). It includes system wise topics and separate chapters on the different topics within the system with the meta-analysis of recent topic or their controversies.

The book is useful for practitioners and young faculties as well as residents, trainees and fellows of surgery and minimal access surgery.

Dr Deborshi Sharma (MS, MRCS-Ed, FMAS) is presently Director and Professor of surgery in the department of surgery, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Dr RMLH, New Delhi with a teaching experience of more than 20 years. He is a past faculty of Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Dr Sharma is examiner and expert in various commissions, committees and universities around the country. He has 57 publications on surgery and minimal access surgery in peer-reviewed journals. Over the years he has presented numerous scientific papers and delivered lectures in India and abroad. Dr Sharma has made immense contribution to minimal access surgery in the central government sector in Delhi, treating the poor and underprivileged and is pioneer of many minimal access procedures in these hospitals. He has been the vice president (CZ) for last 4 years and joint secretary, the preceding 2 years of the Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India. He is also the past secretary of Delhi state chapter of Association of Surgeons of India (ASI) in 2016-17. Since 2012, he also has served as an associate editor of Indian Journal of Surgery (IJOS) and from 2019 he is an editorial board member of IJOS.

Dr Priya Hazrah, (MS, Fellowship Oncology, FMAS, DipMAS) graduated from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, India. She further pursued training in surgical oncology from Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, Ahmedabad and Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India. Currently, she is working as Professor in the department of surgery, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi under the ministry of health and family welfare government of India and affiliated with the University of Delhi. With a keen interest to consolidate her training in minimal access surgery she completed her diploma in minimal access surgery (HPB surgery) from the college of Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI). She has several publications and has been a peer reviewer of many national and international journals. She has also delivered numerous CME lectures and presentations in various national and international conferences/ meetings.

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The book covers the recent developments in various aspects of minimal access surgery (laparoscopic and robotic surgery), which is fairly a new branch of surgery that has advanced tremendously in last few years. This is the first volume of the set of books on recent concepts in minimal access surgery. It provides step-by-step descriptions accompanied by numerous helpful photographs and anatomical drawings. It also includes the controversies and gives a cumulative opinion on the recent changes developing in minimal access surgery (MAS). It includes system wise topics and separate chapters on the different topics within the system with the meta-analysis of recent topic or their controversies.The book is useful for practitioners and young faculties as well as residents, trainees and fellows of surgery and minimal access surgery.