Atlas of Perforator Flap and Wound Healing
He-Ping Zheng, Jian Lin, Yong-Qing Xu, De-Qing Hu 2019 Microsurgical Reconstruction and Cases
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Atlas of Mandibular and Maxillary Reconstruction with the Fibula Flap
Editors: Giorgio De Santis, Peter G. Cordeiro, Luigi Chiarini 2019 The advent of microsurgery in the 1980s dramatically expanded the options for reconstructing defects of the lower and upper jaws, providing the reconstructive surgeon with a wider choice of flaps of skin, soft tissue, and bone. Osteocutaneous free flaps to restore segmental bony defects include the […]
Continue reading →Atlas of Laparoscopic Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer
Chang-Ming Huang, Chao-Hui Zheng, Ping Li Jian-Wei Xie 2019 High Resolution Image for New Surgical Technique Laparoscopic technology has achieved satisfactory clinical effects in the treatment of early gastric cancer and has also been applied to the treatment of locally advanced gastric cancer. The success of laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer not only requires proficient surgical techniques but […]
Continue reading →Arthroscopy and Endoscopy of the Foot and Ankle
Editor Tun Hing Lui 2019 Principle and Practice I have had the privilege to experience firsthand the advances of foot and ankle surgery during my 27 years of practice, and have witnessed technological advances in instrument design which have enabled my friends and colleagues from all over the world develop many innovative procedures to tackle […]
Continue reading →Aortic Valve Preservation
Editors: Takashi Kunihara, Shuichiro Takanashi 2019 Concepts and Approaches According to statistics published by the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2012, mitral valvuloplasty accounted for 66% of the total number of isolated mitral valve surgeries during that year in Japan, whereas aortic valvuloplasty accounted for only 4%. Aortic valvuloplasty was also only performed in […]
Continue reading →Advances in Vestibular Schwannoma Microneurosurgery
Editors: Luciano Mastronardi, Takanori Fukushima, Alberto Campione 2019 Improving Results with New Technologies The aim of this book is to report the results of microsurgical removal of acoustic neuromas (AN) using new technologies: flexible handheld laser fibers, Sonopet Ultrasound Aspirator, Facial Nerve “detector” monopolar stimulation (to localize position and course of nerve), BAERs with LS […]
Continue reading →ABO-incompatible Organ Transplantation
Editor Yi Wang 2019 ABO blood group incompatibility kidney transplantation(ABOi-KT) started in the 1980s. The country which has accumulated a wealth of experience is Japan. In the early days, to implement of this kind of transplant, the doctors were working to remove the native preexisting antibodies and decrease the number of B cells in the […]
Continue reading →Regenerative Strategies for Maxillary and Mandibular Reconstruction
Editors: James C. Melville, Jonathan W. Shum, Simon Young, Mark E. Wong 2019 The replacement of worn or damaged body parts has been a focus of medicine for centuries. As early as the sixth century BC, Indian surgeons described techniques for nasal reconstruction utilizing pedicled flaps from the arm. Since then, significant advances, especially in […]
Continue reading →Occult Spinal Dysraphism
Editors: R. Shane Tubbs, Rod J. Oskouian, Jeffrey P. Blount, W. Jerry Oakes 2019 Our knowledge of the occult spinal dysraphisms has evolved significantly since the first observations of the various manifestations of this term. Spinal dysraphisms, in general, have been observed and studied by many greats in the history of medicine including Morgagni and […]
Continue reading →Atlas of Adrenal Surgery
Editor Alexander Shifrin 2019 Minimally invasive surgery has become the standard-of-care approach for the treatment of adrenal tumors. As with cholecystectomies, current surgical approach for most adrenalectomies is performed either by anterior-lateral laparoscopic or by posterior retroperitoneoscopic approaches. The Atlas of Adrenal Surgery is designed to illustrate different techniques on how to perform successful adrenalectomies […]
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