Manual of Total Mesorectal Excision

Brendan Moran MCh FRCSI FRCS is a Consultant Surgeon at Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Trust, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Southampton University, UKRichard John Heald OBE CBE MChir FRCS is Professor of Surgery and Clinical Director of the Pelican Cancer Foundation, Southampton University, UK and President of the Colostomy Association

• The Evolution of a Concept: The Total Mesorectal Excision Story. Anatomy of the Rectum, Anal Canal and Pelvic Floor. Clinical Ultrasound. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Staging of Rectal Cancer. Radiological Staging for Systemic Disease. Preoperative Radiotherapy and Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Cancer. Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer. Abdominoperineal Excision of the Rectum. Laparoscopic Surgery. Robotic Total Mesorectal Excision. Local Excision and Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery. Pathology Assessment. Assessment and Management of Recurrence. Lateral Pelvic Side-Wall Nodal Involvement in Rectal Cancer. Intestinal Stoma and the Role of Defunctioning a Low Anastomosis after Anterior Resection. Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Abdominoperineal Excision and Anterior Resection for Rectal Cancer.

"I would highly recommend this book as both a comprehensive summary of current state of the art multidisciplinary management of rectal cancer and an excellent description of the ‘craft’ of performing a total mesorectal excision."—Professor Alexander Heriot - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, British Journal of Surgery