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Colorectal Disorders and Diseases

An Infographic Guide

  • 1st Edition - May 19, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Constantine P. Spanos
  • Language: English

Colorectal Disorders and Diseases: An Infographic Guide provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most relevant diagnostic modalities, staging, classific… Read more

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Description

Colorectal Disorders and Diseases: An Infographic Guide provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most relevant diagnostic modalities, staging, classification systems and current therapeutic modalities for colorectal disorders and diseases. With coverage from incontinence, prolapse, anal fissures, and cancer, this reference offers a wide-ranging guide to colorectal disorders and diseases. The use of engaging infographics throughout provides an inviting “at-a-glace” perspective of the subject, allowing users to retain a large amount of information without the need to scroll through large text or complex algorithms.

This is an important reference for clinicians, surgeons and medical students rotating in colorectal surgery as well as scientists that need a quick reference for research of colorectal issues including epidemiology, diagnosis and therapy.

Key features

  • Provides in-depth coverage of mechanisms, helping users quickly recognize the indications that are connected to specific medical conditions
  • Spans the epidemiology, diagnostic modalities, staging, classification systems, and therapy of colorectal diseases and disorders
  • Presents Infographics with engaging visuals which allows users to retain a large amount of information without the need to scroll through large text or complex algorithms

Readership

Scientists that need a quick reference for research of colorectal issues including epidemiology, diagnosis and therapy; Clinicians, surgeons, and medical students rotating in colorectal surgery. Instructors of surgery

Table of contents

1. Anorectal Examination

2. Colorectal Radiology

3. Physiologic Assessment

4. Enhanced Recovery Protocols

5. Bowel Preparation

6. Melena and Hematochezia

7. Anal Disease in Neutropenic Patients

8. Evaluation of Anal Mass

9. Evaluation of Constipation

10. Anal Fissure

11. Anal Stenosis and Stricture

12. Anorectal Abscess

13. Fistula-in-Ano

14. Rectovaginal fistula

15. External Hemorrhoids

16. Internal Hemorrhoids

17. Pilonidal Disease

18. Pruritus and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

19. Pruritus Ani Treatment

20. Hidradenitis Suppurativa

21. Fournier’s Gangrene

22. Anal Epithelial Neoplasia

23. Anal Margin Lesions

24. Anal Cancer

25. Pelvic Outlet Obstruction

26. Fecal Incontinence

27. Constipation: Treatment

28. Retrorectal Tumors

29. Rectal Prolapse

30. Rectal Cancer

31. Rectal Cancer: Metastatic Disease, Emergencies and Follow-up

32. Colon Cancer

33. Colon Cancer: Treatment

34. Diverticulitis

35. Large Bowel Obstruction

36. Volvulus

37. Irritable Bowel Syndrome

38. Colorectal Trauma

39. Endometriosis

40. Ulcerative Colitis: Causes, Clinical Presentation

41. Ulcerative Colitis: Diagnosis, Severity Assessment

42. Ulcerative Colitis: Operative Therapy

43. Crohn’s Disease: Causes, Clinical Presentation

44. Crohn’s Disease: Diagnosis

45. Crohn’s Disease: Medical therapy

46. Crohn’s Disease: Surgery

47. Perianal Crohn’s

48. Infectious Colitis

49. Clostridioides Difficile Colitis

50. Ischemic Colitis

51. Adenomatous Polyposis Syndromes

52. Hamartomatous Polyposis Syndromes

53. Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (Lynch Syndrome)

54. Serrated Polyposis Syndrome

55. Malignant Polyps

56. Appendiceal Neoplasms

57. Peritoneal Surface Malignancy

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 23, 2023
  • Language: English

About the author

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Constantine P. Spanos

Constantine P. Spanos is a Professor of Surgery at the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained his MD from the Aristotle University School of Medicine in 1992. After an internship year at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he trained in General Surgery at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He subsequently pursued fellowship training in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the American College of Thessaloniki. He is currently certified (and recertified) by both the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons as well as the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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