Main description:

State-of-the-Art Atlas and Textbook of Laparoscopic Suturing in Gynecology, Second Edition, enables surgeons facing the challenges of minimal access surgery to understand the most critical and successful use of suturing techniques in laparoscopy.

This book consists of 25 chapters contributed by experts in their fields, covering fundamentals of laparoscopic suturing, suturing applications in endometriosis surgery, posterior colpotomy, and suturing techniques in chair laparoscopy. Fundamentals of laparoscopic suturing such as hand-eye coordination, focus on loops, ligatures and sutures and how they can be best practiced, are covered in detail.

This edition also features new chapters on suturing applications for bowel, bladder and rectovaginal endometriosis, the role of barbed suture in modern day laparoscopy, and 'non-mesh' conventional pelvic floor repair bringing the text fully up-to-date. State-of-the-Art Atlas and Textbook of Laparoscopic Suturing in Gynecology, Second Edition is an essential text for endoscopic, laparoscopic and gynaecological surgeons.

Key Points

Covers "Chair Laparoscopy", a topic rarely covered elsewhere
Includes DVDs for selected laparoscopic suturing procedures in gynaecology
Over 540 full colour images and illustrations
First edition published 2006

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Dedicated Endoscopic Operating Room Today

3. Use of Pelvic Trainers and Simulators to Teach Endoscopic Suturing

4. Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Suturing

5. Laparoscopic Needle Holders & Knot Pushers

6. Lap. Extracorporeal Suturing

7. Intracorporeal Suturing

8. Sliding Knots

9. The Concept of Ipsilateral Suturing & Clinical Applications

10. Use of Barbed Suture in Laparoscopic Gynaecology

11. Reich Modification of the Mccall Culdoplasty to Prevent and/or Repair Prolapse During Total Laproscopic Hysterectomy

12. A Contemporary Approach to Laparoscopic and Robotic-Assisted Myomectomy

13. Laparoscopic Assisted Minilap Myomectomy

14. Laparoscopic Paravaginal Repair and Burch Urethropexy

15. Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy and Interocele Repair with Mesh

16. Laparoscopic Site Specific Repair of Vaginal Vault Prolapse.

17. Laparoscopic Suturing of Bowel

18. "Suturing Applications in Endometriosis Surgery"

19. Posterior Colpotomy

20. Ureteric and Bladder Injury and Repair

21. Laparoscopic Appendectomy for Gynecologists

22. Laparoscopic Micro Surgical Suturing

23. Robotic Suturing in Laparoscopic Surgery

24. Suturing Techniques in Less

25. Chair Laparoscopy with Suturing in a Sitting Position