Overview
- Provides information based on experience with management of more than 1,000 patients with post-cholecystectomy bile duct injury
- Covers medical as well as non-medical e.g. socio-economic and medico legal aspects of bile duct injury
- Includes most recent references
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book provides practical information and offers assistance in managing patients with difficult cases of bile duct injury. It summarises Dr Kapoor’s experience with management of more than 1,000 patients with post-cholecystectomy bile duct injury/ biliary stricture. Chapters cover anatomy, epidemiology, mechanism, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, investigations, classification, diagnosis, management and prevention of bile duct injury. It also includes non-medical issues including health care, socio-economic, costs and quality of life.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr Vinay K Kapoor (MS, FRCSEd) received surgical training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi India. He is currently professor of surgical gastroenterology at the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow India. He has been a visiting professor at the King’s College Hospital, London and the International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur. He has been an examiner for MRCS at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, England and Glasgow. Dr Kapoor’s areas of research interest are bile duct injury and gall bladder cancer. He is globally recognized as an authority on bile duct injury and has published book chapters and articles in journals on the same topic. He has also delivered lectures at conferences and institutions in many countries on bile duct injury. He has recently launched an online education portal called Prashna India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-cholecystectomy Bile Duct Injury
Editors: Vinay K. Kapoor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1236-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1235-3Published: 04 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1238-4Published: 04 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1236-0Published: 03 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 244
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 108 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgery