Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer
This book provides simplified principles of surgical anatomy for colorectal cancers with sophisticated drawings, standard laparoscopic procedures with striking photographs and illustrations, and advanced procedures such as lateral pelvic node dissection a
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Yoshiharu Sakai Editor
Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer
Editor Yoshiharu Sakai Department of Surgery Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto, Japan
ISBN 978-4-431-55710-4 ISBN 978-4-431-55711-1 DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-55711-1
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Preface
Oncological safety as well as the minimum invasiveness of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer has been acknowledged worldwide, based on long-term outcomes of several randomized controlled trials comparing laparoscopic surgery and open surgery. Single port, reduced port, and robotic surgery have also been developed following conventional laparoscopic surgery. Furthermore, the laparoscopic approach has been applied to more advanced procedures, such as intersphincteric resection, lateral pelvic node dissection, and trans-anal total mesorectal excision. Why is laparoscopic surgery gaining popularity among surgeons even though it consists of technically demanding procedures? One of the reasons is better recognition of surgical anatomy in detail even in a deep and narrow space, thanks to the development of optics. Modern technology has been demonstrating fine structures which we have never seen in open surgery or in cadaveric dissection. In other words, we are fascinated with the beauty as well as the reality of “lap-enhanced surgical anatomy”. We have easy access to educational or instructive textbooks and beautiful videos. Photos provide us a static process or anatomy, but it is often difficult to understand them without the help of schema. Drawings emphasize the author’s idea of surgical procedures or anatomy but are at risk of being mi
