Principles and Practices of Surgical Laparoscopy

1 Introduction, Dudley; 2 The inflammatory and metabolic response to open surgery and minimally invasive surgery, Fearon, Ross & O'Riordan; 3 General anaesthesia for laparoscopic surgery, Lee; 4 Principles, techniques and complications of laparoscopy, Paterson-Brown; 5a Expectations of cholycystectomy, Banting & Carter; 5b Laparoscopic cholycystectomy, Paterson-Brown, de Beaux, Grieg & Garden; 5c Cholycystectomy - an overview; 6a Choledocholithiasis - detection and open management, Motson & Menzies; 6b Closed treatment of choledocholithiasis, Carr-Locke & Lichtenstein; 6c Laparoscopic management of choledocholithiasis, Petelin; Choledocholithiasis - an overview; 7a Bypass surgery for obstructive jaundice, Russell; 7b Laparoscopic biliary-enteric bypass, O'Rourke & Nathanson; 7c Bypass surgery - an overview; 8a Expectations of colorectal surgery benign and malignant), Phillips; 8b Laparoscopic colorectal surgery, Fielding; 8c Colorectal surgery - an overview 9a Expectations of surgery for benign oesophageal disease, Watson; 9b Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication, Weerts, Dallemagne, Jehaes, Markiewicz, Lombard; 9c Laparoscopic ligamentum teres cardiopexy, Nathanson; 9d Laparoscopic oesophageal myotomy, Morino; 9e Laparoscopic Rosetti Fundoplication, Mouiel & Katkhouda; 9f Benign oesophageal surgery - an overview; 10a Expectations of surgery for chronic peptic ulcer disease, Taylor; 10b Laparoscopic posterior truncal vagotomy and anterior seromyotomy, Mouiel & Katkhouda; 10c Laparoscopic highly selective vagotomy, Weerts, Dallemagne, Jehaes, Markiewicz, Lombard; 10d Thorascopic truncal vagotomy, Mouiel & Katkhouda; 10e Anti-ulcer surgery - an overview; 11a Expectations of oesophageal resection, Hennessy; 11b Thorascopic and laparoscopic oesophageal resection, Darzi & Monson; 11c Oesophageal resection - an overview; 12a Expectations of hernia surgery, Bendavid; 12b Laparoscopic hernia repairs, Katkhouda & Mouiel; 12c Hernia surgery - an overview; 13a Expectations of emergency abdominal surgery, Irvin; 13b Laparoscopic surgery in the acute abdomen, Paterson-Brown, Scott & Darzi; Acute abdominal surgery - an overview; 14a Early assessment of abdominal trauma, Ochsner, Burris & Champion; 14b Laparoscopy in abdominal trauma, Nagy; 14c Abdominal trauma - an overview; 15a Non-operative assessment of intra-abdominal malignancy, Plant, O'Rourke & Rees; 15b Laparoscopic staging of abdominal malignancy, John & Garden; 15c Abdominal malignancy - an overview; 16a Upper thoracic sympathectomy - open approaches, Hashmonai & Schein; 16b Upper thoracic sympathectomy - thorascopic approach, Standfield; 16c Thoracic sympathectomy - an overview.