Atlas of Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Surgery

This new atlas focuses on delivering the most current laparoscopic techniques for diagnosing and treating kidney, adrenal, ureter, and lymph nodes disease. For each procedure, detailed drawings, from the surgeons perspective, are accompanied by step-by-step instructions.

Provides a detailed chapter on the new laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, including patient preparation, positioning, trocar placement, dissection, bowel retraction, and organ retrieval.

Features two complete chapters on increasingly popular radical and simple nephrectomy procedures.

Organises procedure chapters consistently by subsections: introduction

pre-operative patient preparation

OR setup

patient positioning

trocar placement

surgical dissection

detailed, illustrated descriptions of the actual surgical procedure

postoperative considerations

and possible complications.

Describes the basic, but important techniques, and reviews new equipment and techniques, including stapling and suture options, retraction, electrocautery, and coagulation/hemostasis.

Includes a complete chapter on complications, presenting a detailed description of how to avoid complications and what to do when they occur.