Surgery of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract

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