CORMAN'S COLON and RECTAL SURGERY, Sixth Edition -- Foreword -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Anatomy and Embryology of the Anus, Rectum, and Colon -- EMBRYOLOGY -- ANATOMY OF THE COLON -- SUMMARY -- 2: Physiology of the Colon -- FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION -- DIGESTION -- COLONIC ABSORPTION AND SECRETION -- COLONIC MOTILITY -- CONCLUSION -- 3: Pediatric Surgical Problems -- HIRSCHSPRUNG'S DISEASE -- ANORECTAL MALFORMATIONS -- PEDIATRIC FECAL INCONTINENCE -- 4: Diet and Drugs in Colorectal Surgery -- BOWEL MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS -- 5: Evaluation and Diagnostic Techniques -- HISTORY -- PHYSICAL EXAMINATION -- RADIOLOGIC IMAGING OF THE SMALL BOWEL, COLON, AND RECTUM -- FECES COLLECTION -- FLEXIBLE SIGMOIDOSCOPY AND COLONOSCOPY -- PHYSIOLOGIC STUDIES -- 6: Flexible Sigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy -- FLEXIBLE FIBEROPTIC SIGMOIDOSCOPY AND VIDEOENDOSCOPY -- COLONOSCOPY -- BARIUM ENEMA AND VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY VERSUS COLONOSCOPY -- References -- 7: Setting Up a Colorectal Physiology Laboratory -- MANOMETRY -- DEFECOGRAPHY -- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING -- ULTRASOUND -- NEUROPHYSIOLOGIC ASSESSMENT -- TRANSIT STUDIES -- BIOFEEDBACK -- CONCLUSION -- 8: Analgesia in Colon and Rectal Surgery -- OPIATES -- KETOROLAC -- EPIDURAL ANALGESIS -- BALANCED ANALGESIA -- NONPHARMACOLOGIC THERAPY -- 9: Cutaneous Conditions -- CLASSIFICATION -- INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS -- INFECTIOUS CONDITIONS -- PREMALIGNANT AND MALIGNANT DERMATOSES -- GLOSSARY OF DERMATOLOGIC TERMS -- 10: Colorectal Manifestations of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV Infection) -- ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME -- COLONIC MANIFESTATIONS OF HIV INFECTION -- ANORECTAL DISEASE IN THE HIV-INFECTED PATIENT -- PROTECTION OF THE SURGEON -- CONCLUSIONS -- 11: Hemorrhoids -- ETIOLOGY AND ANATOMY -- PHYSIOLOGY -- CLASSIFICATION -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS -- EXAMINATION -- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT -- AMBULATORY TREATMENT -- TREATMENT OF THROMBOSED HEMORRHOIDS -- GANGRENOUS, PROLAPSED, EDEMATOUS HEMORRHOIDS -- OPERATIVE APPROACHES TO THE TREATMENT OF HEMORRHOIDS -- HEMORRHOIDS IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE -- HEMORRHOIDECTOMY IN THE HIV-POSITIVE PATIENT -- HEMORRHOIDECTOMY DURING PREGNANCY -- 12: Anal Fissure -- ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS -- PHYSIOLOGIC STUDIES -- HISTOPATHOLOGY -- SYMPTOMS -- EXAMINATION -- TREATMENT -- CHRONIC ANAL FISSURE -- 13: Anorectal Abscess -- ETIOLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS -- AGE, SEX, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY -- TYPES OF ABSCESS -- COMPLICATIONS AND OTHER CAUSES OF PERIANAL INFECTIONS -- SUMMARY POINTS -- 14: Anal Fistula -- HISTORY -- SYMPTOMS -- CLASSIFICATION -- PRACTICE PARAMETERS FOR TREATMENT -- IDENTIFICATION OF THE FISTULA TRACT -- PRINCIPLES OF SURGICAL TREATMENT -- SURGICAL APPROACHES AND RESULTS -- 15: Rectovaginal and Rectourethral Fistula -- RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA -- RECTOVAGINAL CYST -- RECTOURETHRAL FISTULA -- ANTERIOR PERINEAL SINUS OR CYST -- 16: Fecal Incontinence -- SCORING SYSTEMS -- PREVALENCE AND ETIOLOGIC FACTORS -- MECHANISMS OF INCONTINENCE -- ASSESSMENT -- INVESTIGATION -- MANAGEMENT STRATEGY -- GENERAL APPROACH -- NONINVASIVE TREATMENT -- INVASIVE TREATMENT -- THE OPERATION -- FECAL DIVERSION -- 17: Colorectal Trauma -- HISTORY -- ETIOLOGY AND EVALUATION -- SURGICAL MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- 18: Management of Foreign Bodies -- EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF INGESTED FOREIGN BODIES -- FOREIGN BODIES OF THE RECTUM -- EVALUATION -- PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT OF RECTAL FOREIGN BODIES -- SPECIAL TECHNIQUES -- 19: Laparoscopic Colon and Rectal Surgery -- HISTORY -- INTRODUCTION -- LEARNING -- OPERATING ROOM -- SURGICAL PROCEDURES -- 20: Constipation, Disorders of Defecation, and Anal Pain.

CONSTIPATION AND DISORDERS OF DEFECATION -- EVACUATION DISORDERS -- ANAL PAIN -- 21: Rectal Prolapse (Internal and External), Solitary Rectal Ulcer, Descending Perineum Syndrome, and Rectocele -- EXTERNAL RECTAL PROLAPSE -- RECTAL PROLAPSE IN CHILDREN -- INTERNAL RECTAL PROLAPSE (PREPROLAPSE, RECTAL INTUSSUSCEPTION) -- SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME -- DESCENDING PERINEUM SYNDROME -- RECTOCELE -- 22: Colorectal Polyps -- SERRATED POLYPS -- HAMARTOMAS -- ADENOMAS -- 23: Carcinoma of the Colon -- ETIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY -- SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND OCCUPATION -- RELIGION -- ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO -- ASPIRIN -- AGE AND GENDER -- SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS -- EVALUATION -- PATHOLOGY -- SURGICAL TREATMENT -- POSTOPERATIVE CARE -- COMPLICATIONS -- MORTALITY AND RECURRENCE AFTER RESECTION -- TREATMENT OF RECURRENCE -- 24: Carcinoma of the Rectum -- SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS OF RECTAL CANCER -- DIAGNOSIS -- TRENDS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF RECTAL CANCER -- DECIDING THE BEST OPTIONS FOR PATIENTS WITH RECTAL CANCER -- INVESTIGATIONS -- FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CHOICE OF OPERATION -- SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF RECTAL CANCER -- RESTORATIVE PROCEDURE: ANTERIOR RESECTION -- EXTERIORIZING THE COLOSTOMY -- LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY FOR RECTAL CANCER -- INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING EXCISION OF THE RECTUM FOR CANCER -- POSTOPERATIVE MORTALITY FOLLOWING EXCISION OF THE RECTUM FOR CANCER -- POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS AFTER EXCISION OF THE RECTUM COMMON TO BOTH ANTERIOR RESECTION AND ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION -- POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS SPECIFIC TO ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION -- POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS SPECIFIC TO RESTORATIVE PROCEDURES FOR RECTAL CANCER -- LOCAL RECURRENCE AFTER EXCISION OF THE RECTUM FOR CANCER -- SURVIVAL AFTER EXCISION OF THE RECTUM FOR CANCER -- TREATMENT OF LOCAL RECURRENCE -- OTHER PROCEDURES FOR RECTAL CANCER -- RADIOTHERAPY -- CHEMOTHERAPY.

25: Malignant Tumors of the Anal Canal -- ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY -- CARCINOMA OF THE PERIANAL SKIN AND ANAL MARGIN -- CLASSIFICATION OF ANAL CANAL TUMORS -- EPIDERMOID OR SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE ANUS -- MALIGNANT MELANOMA -- MISCELLANEOUS ANAL CONDITIONS -- 26: Less Common Tumors and Tumorlike Lesions of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus -- CLASSIFICATION OF UNUSUAL TUMORS AND TUMORLIKE CONDITIONS -- TUMORS OF EPITHELIAL ORIGIN -- TUMORS OF LYMPHOID ORIGIN -- MESENCHYMAL TUMORS -- TUMORS OF NEURAL ORIGIN -- VASCULAR LESIONS -- HETEROTOPIAS AND HAMARTOMAS -- EXOGENOUS, EXTRINSIC, AND MISCELLANEOUS TUMORS -- 27: Diverticular Disease -- HISTORY AND INCIDENCE -- CLASSIFICATION -- EPIDEMIOLOGY -- PATHOGENESIS AND PATHOLOGY -- ETIOLOGIC FACTORS -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS -- TREATMENT -- MEDICAL TREATMENT -- SYMPTOMATIC UNCOMPLICATED DIVERTICULAR DISEASE -- GIANT COLONIC DIVERTICULUM -- DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE RIGHT COLON -- DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE TRANSVERSE COLON -- DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE RECTUM -- DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE SMALL BOWEL -- 28: Vascular Diseases: Hemorrhage, Mesenteric Occlusive and Nonocclusive Disease, Ischemia, Radiation Enteritis, and Volvulus -- HEMORRHAGE -- MESENTERIC OCCLUSIVE AND NONOCCLUSIVE DISEASE -- ISCHEMIC COLITIS -- RADIATION ENTERITIS -- RADIATION PROCTITIS -- VOLVULUS -- 29: Ulcerative Colitis -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- EPIDEMIOLOGY (INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE) AND ETIOLOGY -- DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS: ULCERATIVE COLITIS VERSUS CROHN'S DISEASE -- SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, AND PRESENTATIONS -- COURSE AND PROGNOSIS -- RELATIONSHIP TO CARCINOMA -- MEDICAL MANAGEMENT -- MANAGEMENT OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE DURING PREGNANCY -- MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE ULCERATIVE COLITIS -- SURGICAL MANAGEMENT -- 30: Crohn's Disease and Indeterminate Colitis -- CROHN'S DISEASE -- INDETERMINATE COLITIS.

CONCLUSION -- 31: Intestinal Stomas -- PREPARING THE PATIENT -- LAPAROSCOPIC-ASSISTED STOMAL CREATION -- COLONOSCOPIC-ASSISTED STOMAL CREATION -- PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC COLOSTOMY -- SIGMOID COLOSTOMY -- TRANSVERSE COLOSTOMY -- CECOSTOMY -- ILEOSTOMY -- CONTINENT ILEOSTOMY DEVICE -- PATIENT EVALUATION OF RESULTS: LIFESTYLE AND SEXUAL FUNCTION -- LOOP ILEOSTOMY -- 32: Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing -- PREOPERATIVE CARE -- STOMAL FUNCTION AND CARE -- OSTOMY MANAGEMENT -- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RESOURCES -- 33: Miscellaneous Colitides -- NONINFECTIOUS COLITIDES -- INFECTIOUS COLITIDES -- BACTERIAL INFECTIONS -- VIRAL INFECTIONS -- FUNGAL INFECTIONS -- PARASITIC INFECTIONS -- 34: Medicolegal Aspects of Colon and Rectal Surgery -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- THE WRITTEN LAW -- THE UNWRITTEN LAWS -- SPECIAL SITUATIONS IN COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY -- IF YOU'RE SUED -- CONCLUSION -- Index -- Biography Index.