MINIMALLY INVASIVE ABDOMINAL SURGERY

Laparoscopic surgery, providing shorter hospital stay, faster social recovery and better aesthetics without increasing morbid-mortality and recurrence rate, has revolutionized traditional surgical techniques and is nowadays performed in a series of hospitals worldwide. In Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery some of the most prominent Portuguese surgeon offer their expert opinion and detailed report of the clinical indications, technical aspects, and positive and negative outcomes of laparoscopic techniques in a number of surgical areas namely gallbladder and liver problems, GERD, obesity, hernias, colorectal and gastric oncology, endocrinology, urology, gynecology and emergency surgery while one of the worlds most experienced surgeons – Bernard dAllemagne – discusses the future prospects of their use and development. Thus it is firmly believed that the book will provide a very useful read for all surgeons, especially the young residents.