Manual of complex abdominal wall reconstruction

"This book provides a useful guide for the management of complex abdominal wall problems from the perspective of a general surgeon. In Europe most such problems occur in non-specialist hospitals and are managed without recourse to plastic surgery. The book provides sensible, practical advice for the management of problems as they arise, starting from managing the open abdomen and optimising the chances of achieving later definitive fascial closure, through to dealing with incisional and stomal hernias. Expert guidance supported by evidence-based review of the literature will aid higher surgical trainees and consultant general surgeons who wish to expand their practice in this area"--

Anatomy of the abdominal wall / John Rochester -- The scale of the problem / Sam Parker, X Chalhoub and Al Windsor -- Prevention is better than cure / Rhiannon Harries and Jared Torkington -- The evidence for mesh use / Neil Smart and Ian Daniels -- Pre-operative assessment / Robert Hartley, Olli Pratt and Dominic AJ Slade -- Additional pre-operative considerations and techniques / Danette Wright, Charlotte Ralston and Dominic Slade -- The open abdomen / Jeff Garner -- Rives-Stoppa Repair and Peritoneal Flap Hernioplasty / Duncan Light and Bruce Tulloh -- Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair / Bruce Tulloh -- Anterior Component Separation / James Wheeler -- Endoscopic Component Separation / Stuart Oglesby -- Posterior Component Separation / Ed Parkin and Dominic Slade -- Soft tissue Management / James Baden -- Management of Enterocutaneous Fistula / Jonathan Epstein and Matthias Soop -- Lateral hernias / Bruce Tulloh and Jeff Garner -- Perineal Hernias / Jeff Garner -- Parastomal Hernias / James Hollingshead and Roger Motson