Main description:

The book covers the recent developments in various aspects of minimal access surgery (laparoscopic and robotic surgery), which is fairly a new branch of surgery that has advanced tremendously in last few years. This is the first volume of the set of books on recent concepts in minimal access surgery. It provides step-by-step descriptions accompanied by numerous helpful photographs and anatomical drawings. It also includes the controversies and gives a cumulative opinion on the recent changes developing in minimal access surgery (MAS). It includes system wise topics and separate chapters on the different topics within the system with the meta-analysis of recent topic or their controversies.

The book is useful for practitioners and young faculties as well as residents, trainees and fellows of surgery and minimal access surgery.

Contents:

Laparoscopic Fundoplication: Current Scenario.- Minimally Invasive Procedures for Rectal Prolapse.- Trans Anal Total Meso rectal excision.- Pain Prevention after Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia.- Abdominal Wall Reconstruction: Recent advances.- Extended view TEP: How is it different to TEP? Current evidence.- Mini Gastric Bypass.- Robotic Roux en-Y Gastric Bypass.- Laparoscopic Subtotal Cholecystectomy.- Predictors of Difficult Lap Chole.- Laparoscopic management of massive spleen: Current perspective.- Robotic Whipple procedure.- Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy.- Laparoscopic D2 Gastrectomy.- Staging Laparoscopy.- Ergonomics in Laparoscopic Surgery.- Energy Sources.- Third space endoscopy.- Management of solitary pulmonary nodule.- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy.