Contemporary liver surgery

Atlas of Contemporary Ophthalmic Surgery

This manual contains concise and well-written procedures which would be useful to anyone performing laboratory research on the nervous system. It contains 90 procedures, which are grouped into ten sections. The first section contains dissection procedures. The next six sections concern the establishment of primary cultures of organotypic explant, astrocyte, oligodendrocyte, neuronal, schwann ce...

Contemporary Surgery for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) has been available in some form for greater than three decades. Early management for airway obstruction during sleep relied on tracheotomy which although life saving was not well accepted by patients. In the early eighties two new forms of treatment for OSAS were developed. Surgically a technique described as a uvulopalatopharyngopla...

An overview of contemporary refractive surgery

Surgery of Liver Tumours

The only therapeutic option which offers the potential of cure in primary or secondary hepatic neoplasms is surgical resection. This is usually achieved by partial resection although total resection and transplantation has been undertaken. Unfortunately, the results of transplantation have been disappointing. Other surgical measures are rarely employed. These include hepatic artery ligation, wh...

Laparoscopic Liver Surgery

Recent improvements in cross sectional imaging, chemotherapy and advances in the techniques of liver resection have resulted in rates of 5 year survival approaching 60% for patients with colorectal liver metastasis. Historically liver resection was perceived as a formidable operation but now liver resection is safe and specialist centres should expect low mortality rates in the region of 1-2%1,...