Minimally Invasive Surgery in Cancer : Techniques and Outcomes

The book aims to provide a detailed step-wise explanation of various difficult, complex and lesser-known surgical minimally invasive surgery (MIS) procedures in cancer. It serves as an extensive practical resource for a surgeon interested in MIS for cancer. 

Chapters are contributed by global experts working in this field who have shared their views and personal techniques in a ?how I do it? manner, supplemented by high-quality illustrations, both diagrammatic and actual operative photographs. Each chapter is accompanied by an approximately 8 min narrated high quality video clip so as to provide maximum teaching benefit to the audience.

Chapters cover head and neck, breast, thoracic, GI, colorectal and HPB cancer. It also includes a few chapters covering the history of MIS in cancer, specific instruments/ energy devices, etc. and expert commentaries. Each chapter is well-structured and includes - a brief historyof the procedure, patient positioning and operating room setup, list of specific instruments/ gadgets used, the operative technique in a detailed stepwise manner, postoperative course and management, complications and personal experience.

The book provides an up-to-date, practical guide for both young and experienced surgeons/ surgical oncologists interested in MIS for cancer.