Colorectal Surgery Consultation

How to Avoid Getting into Difficult Operative Situations.- Principles in Approaching Difficult Operative Situations.- Extensive Intraabdominal Adhesions.- Intraoperative Injury to Small or Large bowel.- Injury to the Rectum During Pelvic Surgery.- Appendectomy Pathology Report Returns Adenocarcinoma, Carcinoid or Appendiceal Mucinous Neoplasm.- Unexpected Findings: Normal Appendix During Appendectomy.- During Sigmoid Resection for Diverticulitis the Patient is Found to have Diffuse Diverticulosis.- Intraoperatively the Patient is Found Incidentally to have Colon or Small Bowel Inflammation.- Unexpected Findings:  Intraoperatively Suspected Colon Cancer Turns Out to be Rectal Cancer.- Unexpected Findings: Can't Find the Colon Lesion.- Unexpected Findings: The "Malignant Polyp".- Unexpected Findings: Positive Air Leak.- Unexpected Findings: Anastomotic "Donut" Problems: Incomplete or Missing Donuts with a Negative Leak Test.- Unexpected Findings: Locally Advanced Colon Cancer.- Difficult to Close Abdomen.- Difficult Splenic Flexure Take Down.- Hartmann Takedown: Managing the Hard to Reach or Devascularized Left Colon.- Cannot Find the Rectal Stump During Hartmann Reversal.- Perforated the Rectal Stump while Passing an EEA Stapler.- Inability to Pass EEA Stapler.- The J Pouch Does Not Reach.- Intraperative Management of Bleeding at Stapled Side-to-Side Anastomosis.- Postoperative End-to-End Anastomotic Bleeding.- Postoperative Anastomotic Leak After Low Anterior Resection.- Colon Does Not Reach for a Coloanal Anastomosis.- Cannot Find Internal Opening of Fistula-in-Ano.- How to Deal with Crohn's Friable and Fragile Mesentery.- Ulcerative Colitis with Severe Inflammation and Friable Tissues.  How to Avoid Intra-operative Perforation and Manage the Colorectal Stump.- Patient Develops Anastomotic Stricture After Low Anastomosis with Diverting Ileostomy.- Presacral Bleeding.- Cannot Extract the Circular Stapler.- General Technical Recommendations for Difficult

Sang W. LeeKeck School of Medicine of University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CAUSA
Scott R. Steele Cleveland ClinicCleveland, OHUSA
Daniel L. FeingoldColumbia UniversityNew York, NYUSA
Howard M. RossLewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, PAUSA
David E. Rivadeneira Hofstra-Northwell School of MedicineWoodbury, NYUSA

"This book is clearly written for practicing colorectal surgeons. ... This is a nice book that will provide readers with valuable information on complex situations that they may encounter and how to safely work themselves out of danger." (Peter Nau, Doody's Book Reviews, August 16, 2019)