Topics in Colorectal Disease

ISBN-13: 9783540534471 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 160 str.

R. John Nicholls; Neil J. MCC Mortensen; John M. a. Northover

Opis

This is a compilation of symposia papers which have appeared in the "International Journal of Colorectal Disease", concerning this controversial disease and its clinical management. The opinions of various specialists are presented on such aspects as surgical techniques and laser treatment.

Spis treści

Fistula-in-ano.- Staging of colorectal cancer.- Faecal incontinence.- Surgical aspects of familial adenomatous polyposis.- Proctography.- Lasers in the treatment of colorectal disease.- Laser therapy in the management of benign and malignant tumours in the colon and rectum.- Laser palliation for rectosigmoid cancers.- Risk factors which determine the long term outcome of Neodymium-YAG laser palliation of colorectal carcinoma.- Endoscopic laser therapy in colorectal cancer.- Photodynamic therapy for colorectal disease.- Laser treatment of intestinal vascular abnormalities.- Commentary: What role do lasers play in the management of colorectal disease.- Pouchitis.- The pathology of the ileal reservoir.- Pouchitis — incidence and characteristics in the continent ileostomy.- The role of endoscopy in pouch monitoring and pouchitis.- Clinical diagnosis.- Bacteriology (I).- Bacteriology (II).- Inflammatory mediators in ulcerative colitis.- Faecal bile acids in pouch and pouchitis patients.- Pouchitis: defining an objective method of diagnosis.- Evacuation and pouchitis.- Ileal pouch motility.- The management of anorectal disease in HIV-positive patients.