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Colorectal Disorders and Diseases
An Infographic Guide
- 1st Edition - May 19, 2023
- Author: Constantine P. Spanos
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 6 4 8 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 6 4 9 - 6
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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Request a sales quoteColorectal 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.
- 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
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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Anorectal examination
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 2: Colorectal radiology
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 3: Anorectal physiologic assessment and testing
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 4: Enhanced recovery programs
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Mechanical bowel preparation
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: Melena and hematochezia
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 7: Anal disease in neutropenic patients
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 8: Anal mass
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 9: Anal fissure
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 10: Anal stenosis
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 11: Anorectal abscess
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 12: Fistula-in-ano
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 13: Rectovaginal fistula
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 14: External hemorrhoids
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 15: Internal hemorrhoids
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 16: Pilonidal disease
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 17: Pruritus ani and sexually transmitted disorders
- Abstract
- Bacterial infections
- Viral infections
- Further reading
- Chapter 18: Pruritus ani: Noninfectious causes and treatment
- Abstract
- Dermatological lesions
- Further reading
- Chapter 19: Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 20: Fournier’s gangrene
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 21: Anal squamous intraepithelial lesions
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 22: Anal margin lesions
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 23: Anal cancer
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 24: Pelvic outlet obstruction
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 25: Fecal incontinence
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 26: Constipation
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 27: Constipation treatment
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 28: Retrorectal tumors
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 29: Rectal prolapse
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 30: Rectal cancer
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 31: Metastatic colorectal cancer
- Abstract
- Follow-up
- Further reading
- Chapter 32: Colon cancer
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 33: Colon cancer treatment
- Abstract
- Metastatic colorectal cancer (Fig. 2)
- Further reading
- Chapter 34: Acute diverticulitis
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 35: Large bowel obstruction (LBO)
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 36: Large bowel volvulus
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 37: Irritable bowel syndrome
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 38: Colorectal trauma
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 39: Endometriosis
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 40: Ulcerative colitis: Causes, clinical presentation
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 41: Ulcerative colitis: Diagnosis, severity assessment, medical treatment
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 42: Ulcerative colitis: Operative therapy
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 43: Crohn’s disease: Causes; clinical presentation
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 44: Crohn’s disease: Diagnosis
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 45: Crohn’s disease: Medical therapy
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 46: Crohn’s disease: Surgery
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 47: Perianal Crohn’s disease
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 48: Infectious colitis
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 49: Clostridioides difficile colitis
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 50: Ischemic colitis
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 51: Adenomatous polyposis syndromes
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 52: Hamartomatous polyposis syndromes
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 53: Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (lynch syndrome)
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 54: Serrated polyposis syndrome
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 55: Malignant polyps
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 56: Appendiceal neoplasms
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Chapter 57: Peritoneal surface malignancy
- Abstract
- Further reading
- Captions
- Index
- No. of pages: 326
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 19, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443156489
- eBook ISBN: 9780443156496
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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
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