Frontiers in Colorectal Disease

St. Mark's 150th Anniversary International Conference

R. C. G. Russell, J. P. S. Thomson

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780407012806
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483192079
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Surgery & Surgical Medicine

Frontiers in Colorectal Disease presents a compilation of articles from the international conference titled 'Frontiers in Colorectal Disease'. It discusses the aspects of functional disorders, neoplastic disease and inflammatory bowel disease. It addresses the practical management of a variety of disorders of the colon, rectum, and anus. Some of the topics covered in the book are the basis of functional intestinal symptoms; nervous control of the gut; physiological reactions of the gastrointestinal tract to stress; visceral pain; mechanisms of flatulence and diarrhoea; pathophysiology of constipation; Arbuthnot Lane's disease; and megacolon in adults. The results of surgical treatment of constipation are fully covered. The anorectal incontinence of electrophysiological tests is discussed in detail. The text describes in depth the risk factors in childbirth causing damage to the pelvic floor innervation. A retrospective study of the results of post-anal repair is presented completely. A chapter is devoted to the gracilis muscle transposition for anal incontinence. Another section focuses on the magnitude of risk for cancer in patients with colorectal adenomas. The book can provide useful information to doctors, surgeons, students, and researchers.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Frontiers in Colorectal Disease
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Part I: Symposium I—The basis of functional intestinal symptoms
• Part II: Symposium II—Constipation
• Part III: Symposium III—Anorectal incontinence
• Part IV: Symposium IV—Adenoma surveillance
• Part V: Symposium V—Adenomatous polyposis
• Part VI: Symposium VI—Carcinogenesis
• Part VII: Symposium VII—Tumour markers
• Part VIII: Symposium VIII - Staging of colorectal cancer
• Part IX: Symposium IX - Local excision for colorectal cancer
• Part X: Symposium X - Radiotherapy in rectal cancer
• Part XI: Symposium XI - Screening in colorectal cancer
• Part XII: Symposium XII - Ulcerative colitis: sphincter-saving operations
• Part XIII: Symposium XIII - Ulcerative colitis: dysplasia and cancer risk
• Part XIV: Symposium XIV- Crohn's disease: special problems
• Chapter 49. Epidermoid cancer of the anus
• Chapter 50. Continuing experience with single layer appositional anastomosis in the large bowel
• chapter 51. Effect of adjuvant chemo- or immunotherapy on the prognosis of colorectal cancer operated for cure
• chapter 52. Evacuation proctography in obstructed defaecation and rectal intussuception
• chapter 53. Intrarectal ultrasound and computed tomography in pre- and postoperative assessment of patients with rectal cancer
• Abstracts for free papers
• Abstracts for posters
• Index
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