Main description:

This book is part of a series covering surgical specialties. The volumes are multi-authored, containing brief chapters, each of which are devoted to one or two specific questions or decisions within that specialty that are difficult or controversial. The volumes are intended as a current and timely reference source for practicing surgeons, surgeons in training, and educators that describe the recommended ideal approach, rather than customary care, in selected clinical situations.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Finding and appraising the evidence: EBM and GRADE

Chapter 2: Is Surgery Indicated for Asymptomatic Giant Hepatic Hemangioma?

Chapter 3: What is the Best Surgical Method of Addressing Hepatic Hemangiomas?

Chapter 4: Which Diagnostic Modality is Best to Assess Benign Hepatic Tumors?

Chapter 5: Cystic Diseases of the Liver

Chapter 6: When Should You Operate on Major Hepatic Trauma?

Chapter 7: Surgical Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Resection versus Transplantation

Chapter 8: Hepatic Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma

Chapter 9: What is the Best Way to Screen Cirrhotic Patients for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the United States?

Chapter 10: When is Laparoscopic Liver Resection Preferred Over Open Resection?

Chapter 11: Clinical Management of Pyogenic Liver Abscesses

Chapter 12: Which is better local therapy for HCC, RFA or TACE?

Chapter 13: When should patients with liver metastases from colorectal cancer receive chemotherapy?

Chapter 14: What is the best way to assess hepatic reserve prior to liver resection in the cirrhotic patient?

Chapter 15: Treatment Protocols for Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma ( 3cm): RFA or Resection?

Chapter 16: Which is the Better Predictor of Hepatic Reserve Prior to Liver Resection: MELD or the Child-Pugh Score?

Chapter 17: Early (<24 hr) or Delayed Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis?

Chapter 18: Primary Closure or T-tube Drainage after Open or Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration?

Chapter 19: Single-Incision or Multiport Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Chapter 20: Management of Recurrent Cholangitis

Chapter 21: Management of postoperative bile duct stricture

Chapter 22: Immediate or Delayed Repair for Bile Duct Injury Recognized Postoperatively?

Chapter 23: Management of Suspected Choledocholithiasis on Intraoperative Cholangiography

Chapter 24: Management of Incidentally Discovered Gallbladder Cancer

Chapter 25: Gallstone Ileus

Chapter 26: Surgery or Endoscopy for Bile Duct Strictures secondary to Chronic Pancreatitis?

Chapter 27: Routine or Selective Cholangiography for Elective Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy?

Chapter 28: When is bile duct resection indicated for biliary strictures in primary sclerosing cholangitis?

Chapter 29: Assessment of Bile Duct Tumors: Endoscopic vs Radiographic

Chapter 30: Management of Significant Hemobilia: Hepatic Artery Embolization or Stenting?

Chapter 31: The assessment of ductal margin in curative-intent surgery for perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma

Chapter 32: Management of early post-transplant portal vein thrombosis: results of interventional techniques versus surgical

Chapter 33: When should patients with bleeding esophageal varices undergo TIPS versus endoscopic therapy?

Chapter 34: Management of symptomatic portal hypertension: TIPS vs. medical management

Chapter 35: Should all hepatic arteriovenous fistulas be embolized?

Chapter 36: Early or Delayed Cholecystectomy in Acute Gallstone Pancreatitis

Chapter 37: Nutritional Support in Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Chapter 38: Management of Symptomatic Pancreatic Pseudocyst

Chapter 39: Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Chapter 40: Endoscopic or Minimally Invasive Debridement of Walled-off Pancreatic Necrosis?

Chapter 41: Surgical Debridement in Necrotizing Pancreatitis

Chapter 42: Surgery or Endotherapy for Large Duct Chronic Pancreatitis

Chapter 43: Pancreatic Head Resection for Painful Chronic Pancreatitis

Chapter 44: Is total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation indicated in hereditary/genetic pancreatitis?

Chapter 45: Management of Blunt Pancreatic Trauma in Children

Chapter 46: Surgery or Surveillance for Asymptomatic Small Mucinous Pancreatic Head Cyst

Chapter 47: Management of Asymptomatic IPMN in the Elderly

Chapter 48: Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pancreatic Head Cancer

Chapter 49: Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Discovered at Operation: The Role of Palliative Bypass

Chapter 50: Neoadjuvant Therapy for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Head Cancer

Chapter 51: Neoadjuvant Therapy for Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Chapter 52: Management of borderline resectable pancreatic cancer

Chapter 53: Peritoneal Drain Placement at Pancreatoduodenectomy

Chapter 54: Management of Villous Adenoma of the Ampulla of Vater

Chapter 55: Splenic Preservation at Distal Pancreatectomy

Chapter 56: Management of Small Nonfunctional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

Chapter 57: Management of Pancreatic Gastrinoma

Chapter 58: Management of Pancreatic Cancer in the Elderly