Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery George Fielding Introduction When Mouret performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Lyons in 1988, a true revolution followed. The contrast between a big muscle-splitting Kocher, or…
Laparoscopic Gastrectomy Aurora Dawn Pryor Laparoscopic approaches to the stomach are becoming increasingly common. Although much of this push comes from bariatric surgery, there has been significant crossover into other…
Selective Vagotomy, Antrectomy, and Gastroduodenostomy for the Treatment of Duodenal Ulcer Lloyd M. Nyhus The surgical treatment of complicated duodenal ulcer has undergone marked change since vagotomy was reintroduced by…
Perforated Duodenal Ulcer James W. Maher Silas M. Chikunguwo Introduction Brief Historical Perspective Muralto first described duodenal ulcers at autopsy in 1688. Crisp published a landmark paper in which he…
Congenital Pyloric Stenosis and Duodenal Obstruction Keith T. Oldham Casey M. Calkins In the years that have passed since the last edition of Mastery of Surgery, little has changed with…
Selective Vagotomy and Pyloroplasty Steven D. Schwaitzberg Robert W. Bailey Jose M. Martinez Keith A. Kelly Sumeet S. Teotia Introduction Proximal gastric vagotomy (PGV), also called highly selective vagotomy (HSV)…
Pyloroplasty and Gastrojejunostomy Daniel T. Dempsey Many of the popular and widely performed early gastric operations were drainage procedures designed to treat peptic ulcer disease or obstructing carcinoma. Wolfler first…
Surgical Repair of Tracheoesophageal Fistula and Esophageal Atresia Scott A. Engum Frederick Rescorla Esophageal atresia (EA) and tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) are common neonatal conditions that remain a significant challenge to…
Transhiatal Esophagectomy Without Thoracotomy Mark B. Orringer Introduction In the mid-1970s, the technique of transhiatal esophagectomy (THE) without thoracotomy and cervical esophagogastric anastomosis (CEGA) for both benign and malignant disease…
Distal Gastrectomy with Billroth I or Billroth Ii Reconstruction Rudolf Bumm J. Rüdiger Siewert Partial gastrectomies consist of the removal of the distal portion of the stomach. According to the…
