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Chapter 53 Open Primary and Mesh Repairs Mary Hawn, MD INTRODUCTION Incisional hernias complicate approximately 10% of all laparotomies. Repair of an incisional hernia is a challenging case and recurrence…

Chapter 16 Vagotomy and Pyloroplasty Tamica White, MD, Patrick G. Jackson, MD INTRODUCTION Pyloroplasty was first performed by Heineke in 1886 for a patient with an obstructing pyloric mass.1 Less…

Chapter 69 Thymectomy and Resection of Mediastinal Masses Felix G. Fernandez, MD, Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD INTRODUCTION The mediastinum can be divided into separate anatomic compartments, the anterior, middle or…

Chapter 39 Resection and Reconstruction of the Biliary Tract David A. Bruno, MD, Thomas M. Fishbein, MD INTRODUCTION In 1891, in Dresden, Germany, Oskar Sprengel published the first report of…

Chapter 83 Tracheoesophageal Fistula and Esophageal Atresia Repair Shawn D. Safford, MD, Jeffrey Lukish, MD INTRODUCTION Esophageal atresia (EA) occurs in approximately 1 in every 3000 to 4500 live births…

Chapter 7 Laparoscopic Surgery Jay A. Graham, MD, Patrick G. Jackson, MD INTRODUCTION Laparoscopy was first introduced at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1901, George Kelling was the…

Chapter 23 Right Colectomy: Open and Laparoscopic David W. Larson, MD INTRODUCTION The operative choices available for right colectomy expanded in May of 2004. With the publication of Clinical Outcomes…

Chapter 49 Open Inguinal Hernia Repair with Plug and Patch Technique Derrick D. Cox, MD, Parag Bhanot, MD INTRODUCTION Groin hernias, which can be further classified as inguinal and femoral…

Chapter 35 Pancreaticoduodenectomy Lynt B. Johnson, MD, Rupen Amin, MD INTRODUCTION A pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) or Whipple procedure is one of the most complex general surgical operations. Owing to the complexity…

Chapter 8 Central Vein Catheterization Michael D. Pasquale, MD, Rovinder S. Sandhu, MD, Mark D. Cipolle, MD, PhD, Dale A. Dangleben, MD INTRODUCTION In the United States, more than 5…