Basic Definitions and Introduction -- Natural Course of Wound Repair Versus Impaired Healing in Chronic Skin Ulcers -- Milestones in the History of Wound Healing -- Etiology and Mechanisms of Cutaneous Ulcer Formation -- Determining Etiology: History and Physical Examination -- Determining Etiology: Biopsy and Laboratory Investigation -- Ulcer Measurement and Patient Assessment -- Dressing Mate…
Epidemiologic and Health Costs of Incontinence -- Epidemiology of Urinary Incontinence -- Epidemiology of Faecal Incontinence: A Review of Population-Based Studies -- Economic Costs of Urinary Incontinence in Germany -- Perception of Incontinence in and by Society -- Pelvic Anatomy, Physiology and Etiology of Incontinence -- The Rodent Animal Model to Explain Stress Urinary Incontinence -- Birt…
The Anatomy and Physiology of the Oesophagus -- The Anatomy and Physiology of the Stomach -- The Anatomy and Physiology of the Small Bowel -- The Anatomy and Physiology of the Diaphragm -- The Spleen -- Benign Disease of the Oesophagus -- Benign Diseases of the Stomach -- Benign Disease of the Small Bowel -- Benign Disease of the Diaphragm -- Benign Diseases of the Spleen -- Epithelial Neoplasm…
to Ablation -- History of Ablation -- Epidemiology: How to Appraise the Ablation Literature Critically -- Image-Guided Tumor Ablation: Basic Science -- Tumor Angiogenesis: General Principles and Therapeutic Approaches -- Operations for Tumor Ablation -- Image-Guided Tumor Ablation: How to Build a Practice -- Anesthesia for Ablation -- Devices, Equipment, and Operation of Ablation Systems -- Ima…
Anatomical Spaces -- Radiology of the Anatomical Compartments -- Surgical Endoscopic Access to Potential Anatomical Spaces: A Multidisciplinary Issue -- Technical Aspects for Access into the Neck (Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy — Mivat) -- Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Access to the Mediastinum -- Minimally Invasive Access to the Axilia -- Video-Assisted Approach to the Retrop…
General Considerations: Dynamics of Image Analysis -- Clinical Embryology of the Abdomen: Normal and Pathologic Anatomy -- Intraperitoneal Spread of Infections -- Intraperitoneal Spread of Malignancies -- Staging of Gastrointestinal Cancers -- Pathways of Lymph Node Metastases in Cancer of the Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Tracts -- Manifestations of Intraperitoneal Air -- The Extraperiton…
Anatomy of the Abdominal Wall -- Anesthesia for Liposuction and Abdominoplasty -- Tumescent Anesthesia for Abdominal Liposuction -- Abdominoplasty History and Techniques -- Patient Consultation and Instructions for Abdominoplasty -- Abdominolipoplasty: Classification and Patient Selection -- Mini-abdominoplasty -- Full Abdominoplasty -- Personal Approach to Aesthetic Abdominal Deformities -- Ab…
Background -- General Philosophy -- A Brief History of Emergency Abdominal Surgery -- Before the Operation -- The Acute Abdomen -- Rational Diagnostic Procedures -- Abdominal Imaging -- Optimizing the Patient -- Pre-operative Antibiotics -- Family, Ethics, Informed Consent and Medicolegal Issues -- Before the Flight: Pre-op Checklist -- The Operation -- The Incision -- Abdominal Exploration: Fi…