Nezhat's Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy

Dr Camran Nezhat is Clinical Adjunct Professor of Gynecologic and Obstetric Surgery and Fellowship Director of the Center for Special Minimally Invasive Surgery at Stanford University Medical School. He has served as President of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. He is co-author of Advanced Management and Surgical Techniques (1995) and has published articles in numerous journals. Dr Farr Nezhat is Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. He was formerly Clinical Professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. He is co-author of Advanced Management and Surgical Techniques (1995) and has published articles in numerous journals. Dr Ceana Nezhat is Director of the Nezhat Medical Center in Atlanta and Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is co-author of Advanced Management and Surgical Techniques (1995) and has published articles in multiple journals, including the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fertility and Sterility, and the Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.

Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Equipment; 3. Anesthesia; 4. Laparoscopic trocar access; 5. Laparoscopic suturing; 6. Intraperitoneal and retroperitoneal anatomy; 7. Fertility: 7.1. Frontiers in fertility; 7.2. Assessment of the endometrial cavity in the patient with infertility; 7.3. Ultrasound egg recovery; 7.4. Ultrasonography and the embryo transfer; 7.5. Salpingostomy and salpingectomy TBD; 8. Hysteroscopy: 8.1. Evaluation and management of the uterine septum; 8.2. Intrauterine adhesions: hysteroscopic evaluation and treatment; 8.3 Hysteroscopic myomectomy; 8.4. Hysteroscopic tubal cannulation; 8.5. Hysteroscopic sterilization; 8.6. Global endometrial ablation; 9. Management of adnexal masses: 9.1. The adnexal mass; 9.2. Ovarian cystectomy; 9.3. Laparoscopic operations on the ovary; 9.4. Management of the ectopic pregnancy; 9.5. Management of tubo-ovarian abcesses; 9.6. Surgical management of polycystic ovarian syndrome; 9.7. Ovarian remnant; 10. Endometriosis: 10.1. The pathogenesis of endometriosis; 10.2. Thoracic endometriosis; 11. Laparoscopic adhesiolysis; 12. Leiomyomas: 12.1. Laparoscopic myomectomy; 12.2. Uterine fibroid embolization; 13. Hysterectomy: 13.1. Laparoscopy and hysterectomy; 13.2. Laparoscopic excision of rudimentary uterine horn; 14. Pelvic floor: 14.1. Laparoscopic burch colposuspension; 14.2. Minimally invasive slings; 14.3. Laparoscopic vaginal vault suspension; 14.4. Laparoscopic urethral suspension, repair of cystourethrocele and vesicovaginal fistula; 14.5. Laparoscopic rectovaginal fistula repair; 14.6. Laparoscopic assisted neovaginoplasty; 15. Uterosacral transection and ablation; 16. Gynecologic Malignancy: 16.1. Introduction; 16.2. Laparoscopic lymphadenectomy; 16.3. Laparoscopic sentinel lymph node identification in cervical cancer; 16.4. Schauta radical vaginal hysterectomy and total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy; 16.5. Laparoscopy for endometrial cancer; 16.6. Laparoscopic management of early ovarian cancer; 16.7. Second-look surgery for gynecologic malignancy; 16.8. Port site metastasis and pneumoperitoneum; 17. Laparoscopy in the pregnant patient; 18. Minimal access pediatric surgery; 19. Laparoscopic vascular surgery in 2006; 20. Complications in laparoscopy: 20.1. Laparoscopic major vascular injury; 20.2. Complications: ureter; 20.3. Laparoscopic treatment of gastrointestinal endometriosis; 21. Additional procedures for pelvic surgeons: 21.1. Cystoscopy; 21.2. Intraoperative sigmoidoscopy in gynecologic surgery; 21.3. Appendectomy; 22. Laparoscopy simulators for training basic surgical skills, tasks, and procedures; 23. Robot-assisted laparoscopy: 23.1. Computer assisted surgery and surgical robotics: past, present and future; 23.2. Minimally invasive gynecologic surgery: the evolving role of robotics.