Type of Surgery
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Last updated: 02/17/2009
BOOKS
Johnston, Lorraine. Colon & Rectal Cancer: A ComprehensiveGuide for Patients and Families. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2000.
Levin, Bernard. American Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer. New York:...
Villard, 1999.
PERIODICALS
Beets-Tan, R. G. H., et al. "Accuracy of Maganetic Resonance Imaging in Prediction of Tumour-free Resection Margin in Rectal Cancer Surgery."The Lancet 357 (February 17, 2001): 497.
"Laparoscopy Could Offer Long-term Survival Benefit over Conventional Surgery."Cancer Weekly (July 30, 2002): 14.
Schwenk, Wolfgang. "Pulmonary Function Following Laparoscopic or Conventional Colorectal Resection: A Randomized Controlled Evaluation."Journal of the American Medical Association, 281 (April 7, 1999): 1154.
Senagore, A. J., and P. Erwin-Toth. "Care of the Laparoscopic Colectomy Patient."Advances in Skin & Wound Care 15 (November–December 2002): 277–284.
Walling, Anne D. "Follow-up after Resection for Colorectal Cancer Saves Lives. (Tips from Other Journals)."American Family Physician, 66 (August 1, 2002): 485.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery (ABCRS). 20600 Eureka Road, Suite 713, Taylor, MI 48180. (734) 282-9400.
Mayo Clinic. 200 First St. S.W., Rochester, MN 55905. (507) 284-2511.
United Ostomy Association, Inc. (UOA). 19772 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 200, Irvine, CA 92612-2405. (800) 826-0826.
Wound Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society. 2755 Bristol Street, Suite 110, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. (714) 476-0268.
OTHER
National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Ileostomy, Colostomy, and Ileoanal Reservoir Surgery. (February 1, 2000): 1.
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Colorectal surgery
Involves evaluation and treatment of complaints from the lower intestinal tract - the large bowel, rectum and anus. A large part of this care involves management of Colorectal cancer, as well as more trivial ailments such as Hemorrhoids.
Surgical management of conditions involving the esophagus, stomach, liver, spleen, gall bladder. Cholecystectomy, the surgical removal of the gall bladder, is one of the most common surgical procedures done world-wide.Upper gastro intestinal surgery may be done as emergencies like perforated duodenal ulcers, or acutely inflammed gall baldders or as elective operations such as cancer of stomach.
Though this type of surgery was popular by open surgery, nowadays it is replaced mostly by key hole or laparoscopic surgery . Using the key hole approach, the incisions are much smaller( 1 cm or less in the place of 15 cm long incisions), the scars are less painful , there is less stay in the hospital with early return to normal activity. Key hole surgery especially in the upper gastro intestinal tract causes a lower instance of chest complications as patients breathe better after surgery with minimal pain.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_surgery#Colorectal_surgery
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