Pancreas (Gastrointestinal Surgery Library)

Over the last two decades, there have been major advances in imaging, endoscopy, and laparoscopy in the field of gastrointestinal (GI) surgery. GI surgery is the newest sub-specialty branch of general surgery, where enhanced expertise and high-volume centres have made a difference to the outcomes of complex operations. Surgeons can now perform difficult procedures with low morbidity and mortality rates, and greatly improved overall results.

This volume provides detailed and comprehensive information on diseases of the pancreas. The pancreas continues to fascinate clinicians and researchers worldwide, due to its anatomical location deep inside the abdominal cavity and the various functions of the gland, some of which are well understood but others remaining ill-defined. Last but certainly not least, pancreatic surgery, along with liver surgery, remains the final frontier for the vast majority of GI and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeons. The information explosion in this era has resulted in cutting-edge developments in acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis, and pancreatic cancer.

Comprising evidence-based contributions from recognized leaders in pancreatology, this book covers contemporary issues in acute and chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer to help practicing surgeons and pancreatologists with the most up to date concepts in management. It will be a valuable resource for pancreas specialists, general surgeons with an interest in pancreatic diseases, researchers, and medical students.

• Comprehensive reference text on all the aspects of pancreatic diseases and their surgical management, including acute and chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
• Edited by internationally recognized experts, with contributions from renowned authorities in pancreatic diseases and surgery

Part 1: Acute Pancreatitis
1: Acute Pancreatitis: Aetiopathogenesis, Diagnosis and Approach to Management, Savio George Barreto
2: Management of Oedematous Pancreatitis, Fluid Collections and Walled-off Necrosis (WON), Ajith K. Siriwardena, Saurabh Jamdar, and Minas Baltatzis
3: Management of Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis, Nicholas J. Zyromski and Thomas K. Maatman
Part 2: Chronic Pancreatitis
4: Molecular Understanding and Pathophysiology of Chronic Pancreatitis, Jonas Rosendahl
5: Chronic Pancreatitis: Medical and Endoscopic Management, Pramod Kumar Garg, Anshuman Elhence, and Soumya Jagannath Mahapatra
6: Surgery for Chronic Pancreatitis, Norbert Hüser, Güralp Ceyhan, Helmut Friess, Volker Aßfalg, and Daniel Hartmann
7: Autoimmune Pancreatitis, Suresh T. Chari and Sushil Kumar Garg
8: Tropical Chronic Pancreatitis: Aetiology, Diagnosis and Approach to Management, G. V. Rao and Rupjyoti Talukdar
Part 3: Pancreatic Tumours
9: Molecular Biology of Pancreatic Cancer, Jorg Kleeff, Yoshiaki Sunami, Ibrahim Büdeyri, Johanna Häußler, and Christoph W. Michalski
10: Periampullary and Pancreatic Cancer, Thilo Hackert and Rosa Klotz
11: Neuroendocrine Tumours of the Pancreas, Manish S. Bhandare, Vikas Gupta, Vikram A. Chaudhari, and Shailesh Vinayak Shrikhande
12: Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas, Marco Del Chiaro, Atsushi Oba, Richard D. Schulick, and Y. H. Andrew Wu
Part 4: Miscellaneous
13: Pancreas and Splenic Trauma, Martin D. Smith, Vicky A. Jennings, and John W. Devar
14: Pancreas Transplantation: Improving Survival in Diabetes, Vrishali P. Patil and Hans W. Sollinger

Edited by Shailesh V. Shrikhande, Deputy Director, Head, Division of Cancer Surgery, Chief, GI and HPB Surgery, Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India, and Markus W. Büchler, Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Surgical Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Shailesh V. Shrikhande is the Deputy Director of Tata Memorial Hospital, Head of Division of Cancer Surgery, and Chief of GI and HPB (Gastro Intestinal Hepato Pancreato Biliary) surgical service. He is Chairman of the Indian Council Medical Research (ICMR) committee for developing guidelines for management of Pancreatic and Gastric Cancer in India, and President of the Indian Chapter of IHPBA. He is also the President Elect of the Asia Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (A-PHPBA). In recognition of his work on pancreatic cancer and digestive cancer surgery in India, Professor Shrikhande was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2014 (FRCS-Ad Eundem). He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of American Surgical Association (ASA) in Seattle in April 2021. He is the first HPB specialist and only the second Indian surgeon to receive this honour in last 140 years. He has edited nine books and authored over 75 book chapters and 285 journal articles.

Markus W. Büchler is the Executive Director and Professor of Surgery at Heidelberg University Hospital. After studying medicine in Heidelberg and Berlin he started surgical training at the University of Ulm. In 1993 he became Professor of Surgery and Clinical Director at Bern University, Switzerland. In 2001 he returned to Germany to lead the surgical department in Heidelberg. Today he additionally heads the surgical departments of four general hospitals in the Heidelberg region. He is an internationally respected expert in the field of surgery, especially of pancreatic surgery. More than 2900 scientific manuscripts published by him focus on the molecular basis of GI cancer and pancreatic diseases as well as clinical surgical problems. Professor Büchler is an honorary member of several national and international societies. He is on the editorial boards of many scientific journals and has received multiple awards.

Contributors:

Volker Aßfalg, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Minas Baltatzis, Senior HPB Fellow, Regional Hepato- Pancreato- Biliary Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
Savio George Barreto, Senior Lecturer in Surgery, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Manish S. Bhandare, PDF GI and HPB Surgical Oncology, Associate Professor, GI and HPB Surgery, Tata Memorial Centre, Ernest Borges Marg, Parel, Mumbai, India
Ibrahim Büdeyri, Resident, Department of Surgery, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Güralp Ceyhan, Full Professor, Department of General Surgery, HPB Unit, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Suresh T. Chari, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepat and Nutr, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Vikram A. Chaudhari, PDF GI and HPB Surgical Oncology, Associate Professor, GI and HPB Surgery, Tata Memorial Centre, Ernest Borges Marg, Parel, Mumbai, India
Marco Del Chiaro, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA; University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO, USA
John W. Devar, Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Senior Hepato-pancreatico- biliary Consultant, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa
Anshuman Elhence, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
Helmut Friess, Chair, Full Professor, Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Pramod Kumar Garg, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Sushil Kumar Garg, Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic Health System, Eau Claire, WI, USA
Vikas Gupta, Fellow GI and HPB Oncology, Assistant Professor (Surgical Oncology), Department of Surgery, MGM Medical College, Navi Mumbai, India
Thilo Hackert, Vice Chairman, Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
Daniel Hartmann, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Johanna Häußler, Martin- Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
Norbert Hüser, Professor, Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Saurabh Jamdar, Consultant Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Regional Hepato- pancreato- biliary Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
Vicky A. Jennings, Trauma Surgeon, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, and Netcare Milpark Hospital Level 1 Trauma Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
Jörg Kleeff, Professor of Surgery, Department of Visceral, Vascular, and Endocrine Surgery, University Medical Center Halle, Martin- Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
Rosa Klotz, Physician, Department of General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
Thomas K. Maatman, Surgical Resident, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Soumya Jagannath Mahapatra, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Christoph W. Michalski, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Atsushi Oba, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA; Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
Vrishali P. Patil, Consultant Multi- organ Transplant Surgeon, Department of Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Research Centre, Pune, India
G. V. Rao, Director, Chief of Surgical Gastroenterology and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Jonas Rosendahl, Vice Director, Department of Medicine, Clinic for Internal Medicine I, Martin Luther University, Halle (Salle), Germany
Richard D. Schulick, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA; University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO, USA
Shailesh V. Shrikhande, Deputy Director, Head, Division of Cancer Surgery, Chief, GI and HPB Surgery, Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
Ajith K. Siriwardena, Professor of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Regional Hepato- pancreato- biliary Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
Martin D. Smith, Assistant Head of School of Clinical Medicine, Academic Head of Department of Surgery, WITS School of Clinical Medicine, Johannesburg, South Africa
Hans W. Sollinger, F. O. Belzer Professor of Surgery (Emeritus), Founder ENDSULIN, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
Yoshiaki Sunami, Research Associate, Department of Visceral, Vascular, and Endocrine Surgery, University Medical Center Halle, Martin- Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
Rupjyoti Talukdar, Director, Pancreatology, Clinical Pancreatologist and Clinician Scientist, Head, Pancreas Research Group and Division of Gut Microbial Research, Institute of Translational Research, Asian Healthcare Foundation, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Y. H. Andrew Wu, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA; Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Nicholas J. Zyromski, Professor, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

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