Textbook of Videoscopic Surgery

The number of clinicians utilizing minimally invasive surgical techniques has grown rapidly over the years as has the ever expanding repertoire of endoscopic procedures. This book is a teaching text in endoscopic surgery for the general surgeon and a compendium of endoscopic surgical techniques that have been compiled and described by experts, many of whom were the original pioneers in the field. It contains specific guidelines for the recognition, prevention, and management of complications, as well as detailed procedural descriptions for standard-of-care endoscopic procedures.