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Zusammenfassung: Audiovisual testimony of a Holocaust survivor. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences
This book is a tribute to early pioneers and later innovators in applications of surgical principles for biliary stone disease. It is written as a challenge to all surgeons applying these principles to approach the biliary system with the safest and most appropriate technical support. This book is also written as a challenge to all those involved in the training of future generations of surgeons in the hope that critical standards in biliary surgical management will be promulgated and highlighted. The text contains knowledge from surgical leaders who played a vital part in the modern management of biliary stone disease. These contributions include their perceptions, wisdom and recommendation...
Outlines the training program, the surgical techniques, and the instrumentation needed for laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the current therapy of choice for gallstone related diseases. The topics include problems and difficulties with the procedure, the treatment of ductal calculi, the laparoscopic cholangiograph, and managing pancreatic cancer. Also considers the benefits, indications, and contra-indications of the surgery; and the clinical management of patients. Enlarged to nearly double the size of the first edition (1990), and newly illustrated in color. Addressed to practicing and training physicians. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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In Surgeons and the Scope, James R. Zetka Jr. describes the impact of the video laparoscope on the work lives of contemporary surgeons. The video laparoscope allows surgeons to peer into the inner abdomen with a miniaturized camera, thereby enabling them to perform complex operations without large incisions through small ports punched into the abdominal wall. This technological innovation revolutionized surgery as we know it. Zetka blends rich interview and archival data into a compelling account of an important technological development. He shows how the new laparoscopic technology challenged surgeons to rethink their approaches to surgery, to relearn basic hand-eye coordination, to master ...