Advances in Abdominal Surgery Book

	List of Contributors	ix
	Foreword	xiii
	Color Plates	xvii
Section I	Surgical Infections
Chapter 1	Infected pancreatic necrosis complicated by multiple organ failure	1
Chapter 2	Correlation between peri-operative blood transfusion and post-operative infective complication	13
Chapter 3	In vitro antimicrobial activities of [beta]-lactams, Aminoglycosides, Quinolones, Glycopeptides and Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole against Gram-negative and Gram-positive Bacteria isolated from patients with intra-abdominal infections	19
Chapter 4	Acute acalculous cholecystitis. Clinical and experimental remarks	31
Section II	Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery
Chapter 5	Small diameter porta-caval shunt with ringed PTFE prosthesis for the treatment of portal hypertension	39
Chapter 6	Renal failure complicating obstructive jaundice. An updating	45
Chapter 7	Hepatolithiasis, cystic dilatation of bile ducts and the variable risk of cholangiocarcinoma. Re-evaluation of an old problem	55
Chapter 8	Biliary stent occlusion: a microbiological and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) investigation	69
Chapter 9	Cystic tumors of the pancreas: serous cystadenoma and mucinous cystic neoplasm	81
Section III	Colo-Rectal Surgery
Chapter 10	A critical review of classification systems for colorectal cancer	95
Chapter 11	Standard surgery and adjuvant therapy for colorectal cancer	107
Chapter 12	The follow-up in colorectal cancer	127
Chapter 13	Effect of peri-operative transfusion of whole blood Vs leucocyte-depleted blood on survival after curative surgery for colorectal cancer	143
Chapter 14	Radioimmunoguided surgery in colorectal carcinoma patients	153
Chapter 15	Immunobiological approach to colorectal cancer staging: biological markers, cellular "in situ" immunological response and intranuclear DNA imaging analysis. Old and new parameters. Retrospective evaluation and prospective trials after a fifteen year experience	163
Section Iv	Minimally Invasive Surgery
Chapter 16	Minimally invasive surgery for esophageal diseases	175
Chapter 17	Comparison between rectopexy by laparoscopy and laparotomy for complete rectal prolapse: clinical and functional results	183
Section V	Transplantation
Chapter 18	Renal function in patients with orthotopic liver transplantation	193
Chapter 19	National survey of primary sclerosing cholangitis: an emergent indication for new therapeutic strategies	197
Chapter 20	Pancreatic islet cell transplantation	223
	Author index	243
	Subject index	245