Laparoscopic Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Surgery: Textbook and Illustrated Video Atlas

Laparoscopic Liver, Pancreas and Biliary Surgery: Textbook and Illustrated Video Atlas is the perfect learning tool for all surgeons managing patients requiring advanced liver, pancreas and biliary surgery minimally invasively. This highly immersive text and video atlas will provide surgeons from trainee to advanced levels of practice, including, general surgeons, hepato–pacreatico–biliary surgeons, transplant surgeons and surgical oncologists, with a step–by–step, multi–media teaching atlas on performing laparoscopic liver surgery, anatomically correct, safely and effectively. The atlas will teach the surgeons to perform anatomic liver resections of each liver segment expertly and logically, and will cover lobectomies, extended resections, advanced laparoscopic pancreas surgery (including Whipple) and other procedures. A special emphasis is placed on reproducibility of excellence in surgical technique. Each video will be supported by outstanding illustrations for each technique and 3D renderings of the relevant anatomy. The educational step–by step high–definition videos teach everything you need to know, including critical aspects like patient positioning, port placement, dissection and much more. Led by the pioneers in laparoscopic liver, pancreas and biliary surgery, Brice Gayet and Claudius Conrad, the textbook–chapters will be authored by world experts and will contain surgical tips and tricks garnered from their unique experiences, to improve care, management of complications, relevant society guidelines and excellence in oncologic care for patients with hepato–pancreato–biliary cancers.

List of Contributors Foreword by Norihiro Kokudo Foreword by Keith D. Lillemoe Preface by Claudius Conrad Preface by Brice Gayet Acknowledgments About the companion website Part 1: Textbook 1. The Development of Minimal Access Liver, Pancreas and