A large cross-section of the world s great and good in colorectal surgery have been enticed, inveigled, I suspect at times brow-beaten, to produce this tour de force. The editors, themselves famous for their own extensive contributions in this area, must be congratulated for their ?ne achievements. Every card-carrying specialist needs a reference book of this sort. My own are well worn by many years reference, for when confronted by big problems, big issues, senior clinicians must be able to lay their hands on a well-thumbed old favourite: not a small, where are we now sort of book, or an...

Questo libro su anoretto e pavimento pelvico e indirizzato soprattutto ai chirurghi generali e ai proctologi. Ma anche a radiologi, gastroenterologi, endoscopisti e fisioterapisti. Tutti coloro cioe che sono coinvolti nella gestione del paziente in quel momento critico in cui un evento, imprevisto o magari prevedibile, causa un problema diagnostico o terapeutico. Le complicanze sono presentate e discusse in dettaglio, con la loro patogenesi, prevenzione e cura, usando nuovi metodi interattivi, come gli interventi in diretta, i trucchi del mestiere e le complicanze memorabili, quasi tutti...

The volume is authored by a colorectal surgeon with long-standing clinical and scientific experience and is devoted to the management of complications following surgery of the anorectum and the pelvic floor. It is aimed not only at general surgeons, perineologists and, of course, proctologists, but also at gastroenterologists, endoscopists, radiologists and physiotherapists, i.e. those who may be involved in both diagnosis and cure whenever an adverse event, either unpredictable or potentially preventable, causes an intra- or postoperative, early or late, mild or life-threatening...

Severe bleeding, dehiscence, perforation, anorectal stricture, fecal incontinence, and even caval vein thrombosis, fatal Fournier gangrene and pneumomediastinum may occur after anal surgery.