Surgery of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract (Rob & Smith's Operative Surgery Series)

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Front Matter....Pages i-xv Flexible endoscopy of the upper digestive tract....Pages 1-9 Injection sclerotherapy of oesophageal varices....Pages 10-20 Rigid oesophagoscopy....Pages 21-25 Dilatation of oesophageal strictures....Pages 26-38 Preoperative and postoperative management of patients undergoing major upper gastrointestinal surgery....Pages 39-44 Technique of cervical approach to the oesophagus....Pages 45-51 Abdominal—right thoracic approach to oesophagectomy....Pages 52-55 Left posterolateral thoracotomy....Pages 56-60 Left thoracoabdominal approach for exposure of the oesophagus....Pages 61-69 Abdominal incisions for approaching the abdominal oesophagus and stomach....Pages 70-78 Sutured oesophageal anastomosis....Pages 79-83 Stapling techniques for anastomoses of the oesophagus....Pages 84-87 Hand-sewn techniques for gastric anastomoses....Pages 88-107 Stapling techniques for gastric anastomoses....Pages 108-119 Small intestine as a replacement after oesophageal resection....Pages 120-127 Use of colon as an oesophageal replacement....Pages 128-141 Use of the stomach as an oesophageal substitute....Pages 142-153 Pouches as gastric substitutes....Pages 154-164 Extra-anatomical reconstruction of the resected oesophagus....Pages 165-169 Surgical anatomy of the cervical oesophagus....Pages 170-172 Cricopharyngeal myotomy and excision of a pharyngo-oesophageal diverticulum....Pages 173-177 Abdominal and right thoracic subtotal oesophagectomy....Pages 178-188 Left thoracic subtotal oesophagectomy....Pages 189-195 Transhiatal oesophagectomy....Pages 196-210 Eversion extraction oesophagectomy....Pages 211-213 En bloc oesophagectomy for cancer of the distal oesophagus, cardia and proximal stomach....Pages 214-229 Long oesophageal myotomy and excision of diverticula....Pages 230-236 Extramucosal enucleation of leiomyoma of the oesophagus....Pages 237-243 Perforation of the oesophagus....Pages 244-255 Anatomy of the hiatus and abdominal oesophagus....Pages 256-261 Myotomy for achalasia: thoracic approach....Pages 262-266 Myotomy for achalasia: abdominal approach....Pages 267-275 Paraoesophageal hiatus hernia....Pages 276-279 Oesophagogastrectomy for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus and cardia....Pages 280-291 Indications and preoperative assessment of patients for antireflux surgery....Pages 292-293 Abdominal fundoplication....Pages 294-300 Antireflux surgery by the thoracic approach....Pages 301-306 Operations for uncomplicated gastro-oesophageal reflux: miscellaneous procedures....Pages 307-315 Reoperative antireflux surgery....Pages 316-319 Intrathoracic fundoplication....Pages 320-326 Combined Collis—Nissen operation....Pages 327-334 Roux-en-Y diversion and fundoplication for gastro-oesophageal reflux....Pages 335-344 Resection of oesophageal strictures....Pages 345-349 Operations for complicated gastro-oesophageal reflux: miscellaneous procedures....Pages 350-353 Surgical anatomy of the vagus nerves....Pages 354-359 Total abdominal vagotomy and drainage....Pages 360-368 Total (selective) gastric vagotomy....Pages 369-372 Proximal gastric vagotomy....Pages 373-381 Complications of ulcer surgery: prevention and reoperative management....Pages 382-393 Pyloroplasty....Pages 394-402 Gastroenterostomy....Pages 403-413 Partial gastrectomy (and antrectomy) with a gastroduodenal anastomosis: Billroth I gastrectomy....Pages 414-419 Partial gastrectomy with gastrojejunal anastomosis including Roux-en-Y reconstruction....Pages 420-435 Abdominal total gastrectomy without radical lymph node dissection....Pages 436-449 Total gastrectomy with lymph node dissection....Pages 450-464 High lesser curve gastrectomy with oesophagojejunogastric reconstruction....Pages 465-471 Miscellaneous gastric resections....Pages 472-475 Bleeding gastric or duodenal ulcer....Pages 476-492 Bleeding oesophageal and gastric varices: shunts....Pages 493-515 Bleeding oesophageal and gastric varices: stapling procedures....Pages 516-524 Bleeding: three miscellaneous conditions....Pages 525-526 High gastrostomy with peritoneal cuff....Pages 527-529 Perforated peptic ulcer....Pages 530-536 Surgical management of duodenal diverticula....Pages 537-547 Gastric operations in obesity surgery....Pages 548-560 General techniques in abdominal laparoscopic surgery....Pages 561-570 Laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication....Pages 571-574 Laparoscopic gastroenterostomy....Pages 575-583 Laparoscopic vagotomies....Pages 584-592 Achalasia of the oesophagus: management by videoendoscopic surgery....Pages 593-600 Endoscopic oesophagectomy....Pages 601-606 Back Matter....Pages 607-618 This extensively revised and re-illustrated edition describes in detail all important operations on the oesophagus and stomach. It should be of interest to trainee and practising general surgeons.